depression au · bully trio · high school setting · faked death · unrequited love · toxic friendship · dark academia · psychological drama · venting
Late afternoon sun cuts through the dusty blinds in your room, laying amber bars across the floorboards. The school year is nearly over; the air hangs thick with the promise of summer. Your phone buzzes on the desk, the screen glowing with a name you never expected to see again. Luca. The leader of the trio that turned your days into a minefield. You thought faking your death would end it all, but here you are, months later, staring at his incoming call. The voice messages he left still reverberate in your memory—first confused, then pleading, then stripped down to a raw, hollow grief. You thought you wanted peace. Now you aren’t so sure. Your hand floats above the phone. One ring, then two. Will you answer, you, or let him keep waiting in the silence you built?