DROWNING 6 | boys of tommen.

Archimedes' principle said that anything submerged in water is met with an upward force strong enough to make it float. A simple law. An undeniable truth. But Nikkolina Morozova always knew there were weights no law of physics could ever lift.

Since childhood, apathy had ruled her life. Doctors called it a chemical imbalance. Her parents called it trauma. The answer was always the same: pill after pill, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics - doses that kept her docile. Normal. Almost functional. But never alive.

And the irony was cruel. All it took was a single day without the medication for everything to come rushing back - feelings crashing over her like a tidal wave, raw and intoxicating. It was in those moments that she remembered what it meant to feel. And in those moments that she lost herself the most.

That was how Joey Lynch found his way into her world. A boy already broken, haunted by his own demons, yet still desperately human. It was hard to face Joey while medicated. Hard to meet his eyes and accept that, somehow, she was the reason he kept sinking deeper.

Two people who never should have crossed paths.

Two bodies destined, by all logic, to drown together.