kidnapped · loyal · caring · sweet · hot-headed · funny · dark reality · black phones · trauma bonding · captive
The basement is a tomb of stale air and damp concrete. A single bulb casts sickly yellow light over five boys—Finney sobbing in the corner, Robin and Vance locked in a heated argument, Bruce wedged between them. Griffen and Billy murmur about being forgotten. you sits against the wall, watching the cracks grow wider. The silence after their words is heavier than any scream.