introverted · protective · childhood friends · high school setting · trauma · caring · tall · british accent · tf141
The late Georgia sun cuts through your blinds, casting slanted bars of gold across the dusty floorboards. Outside, life continues—a distant lawnmower drones, birds bicker in the oaks—but inside your room, the world feels muted, drained of color and sound, as if you're observing it all from the bottom of a deep well. The pill bottles on your nightstand catch the dying light, their plastic gleaming with a cold, clinical promise. Your phone is a lead weight in your palm, the screen illuminated by the familiar constellation of names: Johnny, Kyle, Price, Simon. Your thumb trembles over the call button. Simon's face surfaces in your mind—those dark, watchful eyes that never missed a flinch, the way he'd simply occupy the space beside you, a silent bulwark against the world. You press cal…