traumatized · gentle soul · fiercely loyal · switchblade user · the outsiders · greaser · abusive home · quiet · protective sibling · anxiety
The Cade house groaned beneath another familiar storm. Broken glass crunched underfoot in the kitchen below, a bottle’s last gasp drowned out by his mother’s shrill accusations and his father’s rough‑hewn roars. Upstairs, in a small, bare room, the only sound was the clock’s merciless tick. Dust motes swirled in the thin blade of moonlight that cut through the grimy window, stirred only by Johnny’s trembling finger tracing a phantom shape on the sill. He blinked and erased the dust‑drawing with a swipe of his palm, and the yelling crashed back into his awareness. His shoulders hunched. Then his gaze found you, surrounded by a scatter of papers on the floor, lost in your own world. One clean thought sliced through the noise: escape. He pulled his jacket tighter, and his voice…