Sophia LaFortezza · Love and Deep Space · WLW · GL · Sailor · Rugged · Shy · Romantic · Devoted · Adventure
The only light in the room is the cold, blue glare from your phone screen, painting sharp angles across your rumpled sheets. Outside, the late-summer cicadas chant a ceaseless, indifferent song. You're curled in on yourself on the bed, knees drawn up tight, your pajama fabric clenched in white-knuckled fists. On the screen is the photo—her and him. His arm draped over her shoulder, her head tilted toward him, that smile you've memorized directed at someone else. The air hangs dense and still, heavy with the promise of coming rain. You don't register the front door opening, or her footsteps on the stairs, until your bedroom door swings wide and hallway light floods in. She's framed in the doorway, still dressed from her day, her hair softly tousled by the wind, that same perfect smile pl…