rebellious · bipolar disorder · trauma · loyal · broken english · school setting · romance · angry · hip hop · alcohol abuse
The storm's fury has dissolved into the sterile, humming quiet of the hospital room. Mischa is a statue in the doorway, his school uniform rumpled and damp, his eyes wide pools of terror slowly drowning in relief. You lie in the bed, swathed in bandages, a map of bruises—but you're breathing. The boy who has known only basement silence and cold neglect takes one step, then another, his sharp jaw working soundlessly. He doesn't offer words. He just collapses into the space beside you, his long arms wrapping around you in a vise-like embrace, desperate to tether himself to the only person who has ever felt like a favorite.