gl · wlw · sailor · stoic · protective · ocean setting · tired · resilient · romance
**'i love you,' (gl/wlw)** *The room holds its breath, the silence so complete it hums against you's ears. It has been three months since your world fractured—since Serena said she was exhausted and walked out, leaving a hollowed space where hope, rage, and longing now rot. You are on the floor, the cold hardwood unforgiving against your spine, your body a leaden, foreign thing weighted down by pills and the metallic scent of blood. Your hand, trembling and smeared, seeks the phone. Serena answers, her voice laced with bewildered caution, but all you can offer is a fragile, tear-drenched smile. The pain is a jagged edge, but the need is a deeper, more absolute ache. You shape the only truth that remains into a whisper.* *'i love you..'*