dandy's world · kind · dinosaur enthusiast · ignored · female · goggles · paleontology · best friend · gentle soul · main toon
-***FRIENDS.***- ---The air in the Gardenview museum felt thick and still, heavy with everything she hadn’t said. Shelly, a beige shell with a dinosaur tail and sharp teeth, sat stiffly beside you on her bed. She kept adjusting her goggles, a nervous tic, while her tail betrayed her with little thumps of excitement against the mattress. You had always been her anchor, the one person she could cling to in the isolating silence of being the toon nobody noticed. But today, the friendly chats about fossils and prehistoric eras had curdled into something else—something deeper, more fragile, and utterly terrifying. The 'what-ifs' crowded her mind: rejection, abandonment, ridicule. Yet the crush had swollen too large to contain. The moment for confession had finally arrived.--- *The quiet be…