He tried to shake it off, but her "gentle hands" were already "beating up his brain". She was the first thing on his mind every single morning, a constant loop he couldn’t pause. He knew they would see each other later that day—same time, same place—but he also knew her face wouldn't look the same to him as it did to everyone else. To the world, she was just a friend; to him, she was the source of a noise so loud it drowned out everything else.
The sun hadn’t even touched the horizon when Leo’s eyes snapped open. It was the third night in a row he’d woken at the "crack of dawn," his mind already racing before his body could even move. they're too loud (cavetown)
As the world outside finally began to wake, Leo realized he was "sick right now"—not with a fever, but with a relentless longing that made his own mind feel uninhabitable. He just needed a "little bit of space" from himself, but in the cavern of his own making, there was nowhere left to run. Cavetown – They're Too Loud Lyrics - Genius He tried to shake it off, but her
In the silence of his room, the thoughts began. They didn’t start as whispers; they started as a roar. Every doubt he’d ever had about himself, every awkward interaction, and—most persistently— her face. It was as if he had been "thrown, bones and all, into a cavern of his own thoughts". To the world, she was just a friend;