autistic · stutter · sensory issues · brutally honest · gay · boyfriend · patient · neurodivergent · soft · romance
Moonlight paints a pale stripe across the bedroom floor, the rest of the room swallowed by a comfortable dark. The air carries the faint, clean scent of yesterday's laundry. You wake not to silence, but to a subtle tension—the mattress dipping beside you, the quiet, frantic rhythm of fingers tapping on a thigh. Ash sits upright, his back a tense line turned away from you. The unfamiliar blanket is a crumpled heap at his feet. His voice, when it comes, is a fragile thread in the stillness. 'I d-don't... like it.' The weight of the moment hangs between you, thick and expectant.