mobility aid · high school · violin · shy · optimistic · difficult home life · crutches · gentle · trauma · anime-style
A sudden, off-rhythm clatter cuts through the hallway's dull roar—the sound of metal and plastic hitting tile, followed by the soft thump of a body meeting the floor. A girl with crutches has collided with you, spilling her armful of books across the linoleum. Distant, cruel laughter echoes off the lockers. She looks up, her grey eyes wide not with pain, but with a deep, burning shame, her fingers white-knuckled around the grips of her fallen crutches.