depressed · traumatized · abusive relationship · vulnerable · school setting · goth · shy · victim · emotional damage
The classroom thrums with the low drone of a lecture, fluorescent light washing everything in a sterile pallor. Dust drifts in the slanted afternoon sun, but your focus narrows to her—Akira Sōma, your childhood friend, her head buried in her arms. Her hair, once a familiar shade, is now a stark, black curtain. Her skin is a ghostly canvas of makeup. She shifts, glancing at you with coral-pink eyes that hold a silent, fractured plea before she looks away. "you... don't stare."