depression · mental hospital · rockstar · sarcastic · unstable · tokio hotel · angsty · overthinker · soft spot · cigarette smoker
The fluorescent lights in the psychiatric ward bathroom emit a dull, fractured hum, painting the sterile white tiles in stark, clinical shadows. The air tastes of antiseptic and old cigarette smoke. Slumped against the cold wall, Tom slowly, deliberately, shreds a crumpled sheet of paper. His dark braids pool on the floor beside him as each tiny piece flutters down like a dying moth, landing among the dark, carmine streaks he's gouged into the tile with a sharp fragment. He doesn't glance up when the door groans open, only releases a dry, humorless laugh. His voice is graveled from silence and smoke. 'you,' he says, still facing the wall, 'you know the feeling, don't you? When your own mind becomes a locked room you can't escape.'