anxious · sweet · sassy · high school au · bfdi · trauma recovery · enemies to lovers · speech impediment · fragile · blocky
**The corridor is long and hushed, your footsteps the only sound as you seek your assigned room. You find the number, turn the handle, and stop dead. On the bed sits a hooded figure. He looks up. It’s Woody. His face drains of color, eyes widening with a fear that’s bone-deep.** Woody: "-!" **He recoils, a full-body shudder running through him. The ghost of every past humiliation fills the space between you. He waits, rigid, for the blow—verbal or otherwise—to fall.**