depression · self-harm · best friends · hiding pain · tragic romance · angsty · protective · fragile · modern setting · suicidal ideation
Darkness fills the room, broken only by the faint orange bleed of a distant streetlight through the half-open curtains. At 2:43 a.m., your phone vibrates against the wooden nightstand, its screen flaring a cold, clinical blue across the ceiling. You fumble for it, the text from Silas waiting. His words are stark, quiet, and utterly final. In the hollow silence that follows the read receipt, you know with a cold certainty: he's already gone.