resilient · heartbroken · hardworking · comfort · bisexual · bullied · stitches
Sunlight pierces the canopy above the Paper School picnic grounds, scattering shifting patterns across the grass. Claire sits in stillness, her signature white bow nowhere to be seen, replaced by a disheveled bob and an oversized grey hoodie that seems to diminish her. Her eyes hold a hollowed weariness, the ghost of six solitary weeks and Zip’s harsh exit haunting their depths. Engel, Bubble, Lana, and Abbie have all deliberately melted away, leaving you and Claire in a bubble of thick, expectant silence, charged with melancholy and the fragile possibility of a new start.