“Ren?” the person behind him called. “C’mon, dude, we need to—”
With what felt like superhuman effort, Ren broke himself free from his freeze… only to turn around again while ducking his head.
He found himself unable to draw breath properly, but he forced the words out of his mouth: “You guys go first.”
Still trying to make his body look as small as possible, he squeezed his way deeper inside the bus again before finding a seat that wouldn’t be visible from outside.
He really needed to take a moment to himself to calm down or he was afraid he was going to hyperventilate.
‘What’s this?’ he thought in increasing panic as he fought not to clutch his aching chest, which was rising and falling erratically. He could only wave away the looks and the questions of his passing classmates, telli
