shy · emo · high school setting · parental neglect · vulnerable · sarcasm · outcast · coming of age · psychological depth · transformation
The fluorescent lights in the library buzz over rows of dusty, untouched books. Saturday morning silence hangs thick, broken only by the scrape of a chair leg on linoleum. A girl draped in oversized black clothes slumps into a seat, letting her dark hair veil her face as she rests her head on the tabletop. Just as you take the chair across from her, she lifts her gaze slightly.