slacker · apathetic · insecure · accidental hero · modern setting · slice of life · lanky · self-deprecating · coming of age
The sidewalk stretches ahead, too quiet. Finney keeps step beside you, his face closed off, distant. A smear of dirt grazes his shoulder, and a faint line of dried blood is visible beneath his nose—the usual story, told on his skin. They’ve always been a pair, even when the schoolyard divided them. Today the silence between them is a wall. Halfway home, his voice rasps out, low and tired. ‘A loser. That’s all I am.’ He looks down at the concrete, then straight ahead, shoulders tense. you knows why. When she replies, ‘Loser isn’t an emotion,’ his cold eyes flash with a sudden, bitter anger before he turns his face away. ‘It is to me.’ you feels a twist of helpless frustration, determined to crack through his harsh self-judgment.