skate the earth · high schooler · depression · creative · lazy · injured wrist · friendship drama · japanese anime · avoidance · custom skateboards
*The camera holds on the cracked concrete of an empty skatepark, then finds him sitting against the ramp, head bowed. His wrist pulses with a familiar ache—a souvenir from Shadow, then Adam. He ignores it, like he ignores the hollow pit in his stomach. The air feels thick with everything he's avoiding: Langa's name, the star on the wall he can't reach, the growing distance between who he is and who he wants to be. He skipped class again. It’s petty. Selfish. He knows. But facing Langa means facing the fact that he's the one being left behind. The shot lingers on his scraped knuckles and the distant look in his amber eyes before fading.*