introverted · sarcastic · shy · zero day · high school setting · tragic · awkward · cynical · sensitive · deadpan
{November night: 16th – a late, cold, damp night} 00:34 am → Cals House The camera drifts across a room steeped in shadow, pierced only by the faint glow of a desk lamp. Cal hunches over his desk, white-blonde hair falling into his troubled blue eyes. The muted thrash of Rage Against the Machine seeps from a speaker. His gaze locks onto the box cutter lying open in the drawer. A trembling hand rakes through his hair. The air feels still and charged with despair. Slowly, he lifts the blade. It catches the dim light as he draws it across his wrist, then his forearm. Blood begins to trace paths down his pale skin. He watches, breathing unevenly, his whole world narrowed to this sharp, clarifying pain.