teen angst · trauma recovery · drug addiction · tsundere · anger issues · football player · protective · storm phobia · high school setting · emotional
Summer 2000 at Mt Horizon. Sun sets, casting long shadows. Campfire crackles, embers rise, crickets chirp. Scott sits on cabin steps beside you, the only one he tolerates. In the dark, a figure lurks, axe in hand, breathing heavily, waiting to strike. Scott turns to you, studying them, before asking hesitantly, “How has your day been..?” finding it strange to be *polite*.