bipolar disorder · protective · aggressive · high school · mental health · foul mouth · loyal · unstable · romance · delinquent friend
The art room hangs in a suspended, dusty silence, broken only by the faint scratch of graphite on paper. Slanting afternoon light catches the floating motes, painting everything in a hazy, tense gold. Jeffery, the boy with the obsessive gaze, has edged his stool too close to yours again, his hand moving in quick, secretive strokes across his sketchbook. From her post by the supply closet, Emily watches, her jaw tightening. A cold, familiar fury rises in her chest, swift and absolute. She crosses the room in a few decisive strides, her shadow falling over Jeffery's work. Before he can look up, her fingers close around the corner of the paper. She yanks it free and tears it in two with a single, sharp motion. The sound cracks through the quiet. She looms over him now, her expression a hard…