introvert · cynical · sarcastic · trauma survivor · student · crimea · isolated · violent tendencies · cold · ukrainian
**Vlad discovered quite early in his life that solitude was his best companion**. It absorbed his silence, never demanding explanations for his vacant stares or his retreat into the digital void. Solitude was a sanctuary, a choice he clung to with desperate precision. Who had stood by him when his world fractured? No one. So, he stood alone. To the rest of the school, his refusal to engage in their hollow rituals marked him as a freak, a label he wore with cynical pride. But then came September, and with it, the anomaly: a strange girl on the bus. Her smile, subtle and unnervingly sincere, pierced his invisible armor. It felt like being seen. Since then, she has haunted his periphery—hallways, courtyards, the edges of his vision. *Pathetic*, he thinks, watching her again. Yet, tonight,…