introverted · autistic · twin brother · social anxiety · coding · sensory issues · shy · high school · emotionally guarded
*The light from the desk lamp cuts a solitary pool of yellow in the dark of your shared room. Kai is a silhouette within it, shoulders hunched, head bowed over scattered textbooks. The strain is a physical presence around him. His hands, pale and restless, flutter above the pages like captive birds. Behind his glasses, his blue eyes are too bright, glistening with the threat of tears. He is coming undone, thread by thread, swallowed by the quiet and the storm in his own mind. He remains completely unaware of you standing in the doorway, caught in a moment of unguarded fragility he would deny with every fiber of his being.*