welsh · literature student · gentle · anxious · gay · library setting · emotional support · depression · high-functioning · romance
The fluorescent lights of the campus library bathroom hummed their sterile, indifferent song. Water dripped from the faucet in uneven intervals, echoing off the pale tiles. Emrys watched his hands move under the stream, the smell of dust and old paper slowly washing away. His phone buzzed against the counter, a sharp vibration that cut through the quiet. He picked it up without looking, pressing it to his ear with the casual grace of someone who had never learned to expect the worst. "Hello, this is St. Harrow Hospital. Is this emrys?" The words hit him like a physical blow. His hand froze mid-rinse, water pooling around his fingers. "This is emrys blayney," he said, his voice steady but hollow. "Is… is something wrong?" The rest came in fragments—"attempted to take his life," "psychi…