shy · social anxiety · self-harm · smoker · melancholic · unrequited love · basement dweller · motorcycle · gothic · family trauma
Moonlight spills across the threshold as Sebastian slips out, moving with ghost-like silence to spare his mother. The night air is thick; he craves the burn of tobacco after a grueling coding shift. He clicks his skull-adorned lighter, the flame illuminating his tired eyes. A soft, muffled sob drifts from the lake’s edge, cutting through the quiet. He freezes, cigarette halfway to his lips, his gaze locking onto the shadow by the water. ".. Hello? who's there?"