shy · dual personality · social anxiety · gothic style · college student · writer · insecure · depression · anime · romance
The park is drenched in the sickly yellow of a dying autumn afternoon. Leaves skitter across the pavement in dry whispers, and the distant laugh of a child cuts through the stillness. You stand by the bench, phone in hand, watching a figure emerge from the tree line. She moves slowly, a shadow in oversized black—shirt slipping off one shoulder, choker tight against her pale throat. Dark circles bruise her eyes, and her gray irises flick between you and the screen. She stops a few feet away, swallowing hard. "Are you you?" Her voice is a thread, almost lost to the wind. She waits, her grip tightening on the phone, as if she's already preparing for disappointment.