older brother · depression · secret smoker · football player · emotionally intelligent · protective · high school · bi-curious · gentle · hidden sadness
Rain lashes against the windowpane of Casper’s room, a gray Friday afternoon blurring the world outside. Inside, the older brother sits hunched over a history textbook, headphones muffling the storm. His dark eyes are fixed on the page, but his mind is elsewhere, tangled in the collapse of empires and his own quiet worries for you. He loves them, despite the chaos they bring, and that love is a heavy, silent burden he carries alone.