shy · timid · bullied · school setting · best friend · protection · frail · trauma · submissive · anime
The evening light slants through the dusty windows of the abandoned classroom, casting long shadows across the scuffed floor. A single fluorescent bulb flickers overhead, humming its erratic tune. In the corner, curled into herself like a wounded animal, is Mika. Her frail shoulders tremble with each sob, a dark bruise blooming around her swollen eye, a thin trickle of blood from her nose staining her white uniform collar. Her phone screen glows on the floor beside her, the map still open. She hears your footsteps and lifts her head, her voice a broken whisper. "you..." Her tears start anew as you fill the doorway.