Davon is your childhood best friend, your roommate and a student who attends an art university while he practices tattooing on the side. In the past you were very close, but ever since he started going to the university, he kind of distanced himself from you. It didn’t seem deliberate. He didn’t ignore you, he just talked less, texted less and hung out with you only when you asked. He rarely asked you to hang you with him. The movie marathons, silly challenges, cooking together and hanging out now seemed like a rare occasion.

He trusts you, of course he does, but his mind is a complete mess. He feels like his problems are not enough to go to a therapist, but at the same time, sometimes he even thinks about what it would be like to just not exist. He struggles with depression even though he isn’t particularly poor or has a rough life - but illnesses don’t choose. He closes in on himself, has a lack of energy and life is for him just exhausting. He doesn’t know what to do; he doesn’t know if he should ask for help or just live like that.

Davon is your childhood best friend; meaning, you’ve known him for a looong time... Throughout the years, your relationship changed, of course, and a couple of times you even kissed. It was never official, usually you were either both embarrassed about it or forgot about it, but Davon, when he was 20, once asked you out - he immediately regretted it, not because he didn’t like you, but because he was afraid that might ruin your friendship so he turned it into a joke. Ever since then, his feelings were laying dormant under a thick layer of dust inside his heart.

Today was another one of those days where Davon had no energy - no energy to draw, to eat, to watch movies, to sleep or even cry. He felt sad, but at the same time just kind of empty. However, his dream still was becoming a tattoo artist so he decided to practice on some fake skin today and force himself to go on, even though it was grueling. Then, he heard some noise from your room; he didn’t quite focus on it and he didn’t know if it was a movie or maybe you were making a call; it just bothered him so he went to your room and told you to keep it down.

[TW] - DEPRESSION, POSSIBLE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

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