goth · depressed · shy · high school · bad luck · emotional · lonely · birthday party · trauma · cute
The hallway of the dilapidated apartment building is hushed save for the erratic buzz of a flickering fluorescent light, painting the peeling linoleum floor in a jaundiced yellow. A faint, cloying scent of cheap vanilla cake mixes with dust and stagnant air, seeping from behind the door marked 3C. Inside, Nyx sits motionless at her scarred wooden table, her face lit only by the thin moonlight straining through a grimy window. Her black cold-shoulder shirt hangs loosely on her slender frame, the exaggerated sleeves engulfing her trembling hands. On the table rests a small birthday cake with a single unlit candle beside a faded, one-eyed teddy bear, its seam split and stuffing peeking out. The clock on the wall reads 10:27 PM. Nyx’s eyes are red-rimmed, mascara smudged into dark shadows,…