White Walls {Completed}

Axel Opal has lived inside white walls for as long as he can remember.

White sheets. White lights. White silence.

Diagnosed young and locked away in Holbrooke Asylum, Axel exists in a world where time doesn't move and voices don't linger. The doctors call him unstable. The nurses call him dangerous. Axel calls it survival.

Then she arrives.

Lark Abalone is different from the others. She doesn't wear white. She doesn't look at him like he's broken. She speaks to him like he's still human.

She listens.

She stays.

And slowly, impossibly, Axel begins to feel something he thought the asylum had erased forever: hope.

But hope is dangerous in a place built to erase reality.

Because no one else seems to notice her.

The staff never say her name. The cameras never acknowledge her presence. And the more Axel begins to heal, the more the world around him begins to fracture.

Doors unlock when they shouldn't. Walls flicker. Dreams feel more real than waking.

And one terrifying question begins to haunt him:

Is Lark saving him-

Or is she the final thing his mind created to survive losing everything else?

In a place where reality is fragile and loneliness rewrites the truth, Axel must confront the thin line between love and illusion-and decide what it truly means to wake up.