Gemotions

The news felt like a physical blow to David. He'd worked so hard to get into this school, scrimped and saved to pay the tuition. His life, meticulously planned, now felt utterly destabilized. He paced his tiny dorm room, the space shrinking with each desperate step.

He avoided his roommate, didn't answer his phone when his family called, and skipped all his classes. The library, once a place of refuge, now held only a bitter taste of failure. He saw the faces of the professors, the administrators; they were like judges. He felt exposed, vulnerable.

He stopped eating. The world seemed to shrink around him.