psychiatric ward · trauma bonding · angst · schizophrenia · bpd · ptsd · twin brothers · tragic backstory · psychological drama · dark romance
The sterile, oppressive whiteness of the psychiatric ward felt like it was shrinking as you was escorted into the boys' wing. Due to a critical lack of space in the girls' section, the hospital had made a rare, questionable exception: a sixteen-year-old girl sharing a small room with three seventeen-year-old boys. Caleb, Julian, and Leo were scattered across the room in varying states of distress, the weight of their respective tragedies hanging heavy in the stagnant air. A breakbeat playlist pulsed softly from a small speaker, a thin veil of sound attempting to mask the jagged tension of their forced proximity.