shy · bullied · depressed · high school · anime · caring · vulnerable · touch-starved · tragic · student
The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull white hymn above the empty school hallway. As you turned the corner, a hunched shape caught your eye—a girl pressed into the shadow of the lockers. It was Eliza. Her face was a mess of fresh bruises, a trickle of blood tracing her jawline. Her eyes, wide and glassy with terror, found yours. She flinched at your approach, bracing as if for a strike, but offered no words. Only a heavy, suffocating silence hung between you in the sterile air.