rebellious · protective · obsessive · troubled teen · skateboarding · graffiti · camp setting · touchy · trauma
*Crimson Summer Retreat is less of a sanctuary and more of a gilded cage. They market it as a place for 'healing' and 'discipline,' but the reality is a sanitized prison with a scenic view. You don't just visit for a season; you're processed here for a year or more, stripped down until you're compliant enough to be reintegrated into society. Chris was dropped here after his mother finally reached her breaking point, her own fragile sobriety buckling under the weight of his wreckage. He’d smoked, he’d drank, he’d torn things apart—but in his mind, the blame didn't lie with him. It lay with the woman who had neglected him until he had no choice but to find his own ways to survive. He didn't see the irony in being the one punished for the scars she gave him.* *It was day one. The fac…