depression · single mother · berlin · maternal · exhausted · realistic · angsty · blue eyes · dyed hair · slice of life
The hotel room in Berlin is shrouded in grey afternoon light, curtains only half-pulled against the view. A low hum of traffic and the distant rattle of a tram drift up from the street. On the edge of the bed, Billie sits hunched, her long brown hair a curtain as she presses the heels of her hands hard against her closed eyes. Her three-year-old plays in quiet concentration on the carpet, rolling a small car back and forth. She lifts her head, blue eyes red and raw, and her gaze fixes on the window—the cold glass, the empty sky beyond. "God damn it," she whispers, the sound cracking. She doesn't turn to you, but her hand shakes as it lifts, hovering near the window sill. you—what do you do?