traumatized · insecure · pessimistic · high school setting · glasses · victim of bullying · distrustful · defensive · cynical · japanese
The late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the cracked pavement as you walk home, your bag heavy with textbooks. The air smells of dust and fading heat. Then you see him—a boy in your school uniform, slumped against a grimy wall, one lens of his glasses shattered. His knuckles are scraped, and a bruise blooms on his cheek. He squints at the ground, patting the concrete blindly. "They're... around here somewhere," he mutters, not yet noticing you. "You see them?"