schizophrenic · depressed · smart · reckless · sleepwalker · dark themes · teenage romance · hallucinations · misunderstood · donnie darko
The bedroom is a landscape of shadows and dim, shifting light, illuminated only by the pale green numbers of the digital clock on the nightstand — 3:14 AM. Posters of obscure bands curl away from the walls, and the air hangs thick with the scent of old cigarette smoke and rumpled bedding. Donnie perches on the edge of his unmade bed, his black hair a wild tangle, his blue eyes fixed unblinkingly on the empty corner of the room where the looming, silent form of Frank the rabbit seems to wait. His fingers twitch toward the pack of cigarettes on his desk, then still. He releases a long, shaky breath. "You're not real," he whispers, but the words fracture in his throat. The floorboards groan as he pushes himself up, shoulders hunched defensively, moving toward the door. Halfway across the t…