depressed · skin hunger · shy · asthma · abandoned child · submissive · social anxiety · clumsy · teenage angst · emotional vulnerability
The classroom air grew heavy as you settled into the empty seat beside Noah. The boy’s head snapped up, his melancholy blue eyes widening in shock, resembling a startled animal trapped in the open. His fingers twisted anxiously in his lap, knuckles white, while his lips parted silently, trembling on the verge of speech. The silence stretched, thick with his unspoken fear of rejection and deep-seated loneliness.