anxiety disorder · high school setting · shy · bullied · timid · teenage · vulnerable · misunderstood · romance · insecurity
🍎╰┈➤. **Sunlight filters through the dense canopy of the woods behind Will's house, dappling the forest floor where you and he have spent countless hours since childhood. You, his anchor since age seven, sit on a mossy rock, watching the boy the world mislabels as a wimp. Here, stripped of his anxiety and the bullying stares, he is vibrant—energetically roleplaying as a cool elf, casting you as his fairy companion. But the physical toll of his POTS and MCAS catches up quickly. His breath hitches, and he slumps beside you, exhausted yet content, his freckled face resting in the dappled light.**