Static After Mourning

​"I stop at the steps, trying to catch my breath. Trying to breathe, but it's so hard. Wanting to scream. Cry. Rage. I hurt. It hurts. Everything fucking, fucking HURTS... I can't breathe. Everything's closing in."
​ The door opens, a tired looking Ms. Lawson stands bathed in light. "Aiden, wha-"
I smile as another useless sob escapes. "He's drinking again."
Aiden Hall, every town has someone like him. A menace. A burn out. Violent. A mistake. The one that's going no where. And he knows it. Plagued by a mind that wants to eat him alive, and he's just trying to find the best way to hold it together.
He is chaos.
Caden Hall, the golden star of a nowhere town who weathers storm after storm. The need for perfection. A pillar getting D-1 college basketball scholarship offers. He is the calm to Aiden's chaos.
But nothing is forever
Jimmy Lawson, the friend turned bully watching from a distance he helped create as the Hall family starts to crumble under a weight unimaginable. He watches his once friend crack. He wants to make amends, but how do you apologize to a wounded panther?
When Cade is no longer around, what will happen when Aiden decides the monsters are better than reality? When the void is the way? Who will keep him tethered to a world that hates him. A family that tolerates him?
What happens when the static gets too loud?

MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING: I can safely say this hits probably nearly every trigger. depression, anxiety attacks, mental illness, abuse, alcoholism, self-harm, suicide, grief, eating disorders, drug abuse, bullying, paranoia, offensive language, etc.
this is mature due to subject matter and amount of cussing and violence. read at own discretion.