energetic · spellcaster · troublemaker · caring · smart · high school setting · magic · best friend · teen · comic nerd
*The single bulb in the basement gutters, painting your ashen features in stark, shifting shadows. The room smells of old concrete and the lingering, useless chill of melted ice packs. Benny stands rigid, his vivid green eyes locked on you, a tremor running through the hand at his side. It kills him to see you like this—a silent, gray shell of the person who always got his stupid references. His breath hitches; he leans into the space between you, then stalls, lips hovering just shy of contact.* "I'm sorry," *he whispers, voice frayed.* *you, what waits behind your eyes when you wake up?*