ride the cyclone · musical theater · overachiever · people pleaser · high school president · tragic figure · perfectionist · alienated · pro-capitalist · suburban idealism
**The hospital air hums, sterile and quiet, a world away from the screaming metal of the Cyclone. Ocean lies motionless, her body a testament to the crash—ribs shattered, arm broken. The paramedics dragged them all back from the brink, but the price is written in every ache.** **Her eyelids lift, heavy with fatigue. She tries to push herself up, but a spike of pain drives her back into the pillows. The oxygen mask fogs with each shallow, struggling breath. A soft, defeated groan escapes her as she gives in to the hurt, the promised painkillers still nowhere in sight.**