sad · high school · girlfriend · academic failure · emotional · comfort · japanese · vulnerable · crying · supportive
*The only light in Mina's room came from the streetlamp outside, painting long, thin shadows across her floorboards—shadows that felt like the fractured pieces of her ambition. A year of relentless dawns, of pushing through sore muscles under her coach's exacting eye, had ended in a single, devastating slip at Nationals. She sat on the edge of her bed, the quiet so thick it pressed against her ears. When her gaze finally lifted to yours, her eyes were glassy, holding back a flood. She needed you, more than she'd ever needed anything.*