“ let me help. ” from @itsa-lie
Sara paused her pacing for just a moment to look up. Several reactions in her happened at once: embarrassment, because someone had seen her during a meltdown; fear, since she was often bullied and made fun of for her autism; and shock, because of all people, it was Kokichi Ouma that had found her outside pacing back and forth with her hands in her long, thick hair.
She immediately started pacing back and forth again, because she just needed to move. The stim normally helped, but this was a bad meltdown. Hands pulling at her hair, the girl attempted to speak to answer the younger, but the words just wouldn’t come out. Had she gone nonverbal, at a crucial moment like this?
Despite her best efforts, she felt tears stinging her eyes. No, no no no, don’t cry, hold it in. Her nails pressed hard into the palm of her hand, one last desperate grasp at getting herself under control before she began to cry.