Noise

He sat against a wall, knees drawn to his chest to make himself as small as possible, hands fitted over his ears to somehow muffle the noise around him. His eyes were squeezed shut, and he was distantly aware that he was shaking.There were voices in his head, screaming, distorted to a point where he could not make out any actual words anymore. But it was loud. So loud that he couldn’t think, couldn’t move.Then suddenly, hands on his arms, roughly shaking him. Or: When everything around him including himself is falling apart, Felix is found by Chan and six boys who will show Felix what he had been missing all along.