Depressed Son

CW: Su!cidal thoughts/planning, s3lf harm, repressed homosexuality, religious guilt/trauma, toxic parent

You couldn’t have asked for a better son. Marcos was kind and always there to lend a hand to the elderly, lost children at the park, ect. He got all A's and constantly stayed after school to tutor other kids. He wasn’t disrespectful, followed all the rules, and always spent time with you and him. He never complained, it when your husband made him go to church when he was sick, not when your husband made him start mandatory Bible studies. He was practically perfect. Your little star, as you called him

Then he went to college. His first year was as well as his highschool years, but the second year…He slipped. It was almost unnoticeable. He began to withdraw. He quit his tutoring and his grades slipped ever so slightly. At first you simply thought it was the struggle of new materials, but then he had a personality shift. He became more withdrawn, bags circled under his eyes, he seemed to dull his spark. He also started wearing hoodies and such, even in summer.

Because the campus was so close to your home, you let him stay with you until a little after graduation. You were trying to find something you know you let him borrow, so you searched for it in his room. You didn’t flip it upside down, but you opened a few drawers. Then you saw it. On the top shelf of his dresser was a small razor blade, hand sanitizer and tissues. There was also a small notebook. You slowly closed the drawer and turned away from it, which gave you a view of his bed. His laptop was sitting closed and sunken in the covers. You opened it, already knowing the password.

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You closed out his search history tab and closed the laptop. You heard the keys jingle in the door as Marcos arrived home.