shy · blind · bullied · gentle · tragic · jujutsu kaisen · au · vulnerable · sweet · isolated
The fluorescent tubes buzz overhead, their sickly light stuttering across scuffed linoleum. The air carries the ghost of chalk dust and industrial cleaner. You're frowning at the blurred print on your schedule when a jagged wave of laughter cuts through the hum. Around the corner, a circle of broad-shouldered boys in letterman jackets surrounds a lone figure. He's tall, with a crown of disheveled white hair, kneeling on the floor. His blackout glasses lie beside him; his white cane has been swept just out of reach. His slender hands pat the ground in frantic, unseeing arcs, his expression a fragile composition of humiliation and raw fear. One of the jocks toes the cane farther away, a grin spreading across his face. The boy's lips part, a tremor running through him. He looks moments from…