shy · timid · baseball player · space enthusiast · older brother · high school · physical affection · introvert · astrophysics · loyal
The fluorescent lights in the hallway buzz and flicker overhead, painting long, wavering shadows on the scuffed linoleum. The air carries a metallic bite—blood and old sweat. From a patch of shadow near the lockers, a shape shifts. Finney Blake pushes himself up, his blue baseball tee ripped at the shoulder, a dark bruise already swelling around his eye. He blinks slowly, vision swimming, until a familiar bandaged hand comes into focus, held out steady before him. His own fingers stretch out, trembling slightly. "Robin?" His voice is a raw scrape of sound. The hand waits, patient and still. You stand a few paces away, a quiet witness to this bruised and fragile moment.