angst · unrequited love · korean · lawyer · gentle · obsessive · domestic setting · pushover · baking · infidelity
The scent of roses and cinnamon hangs thick in the apartment's evening stillness. Pale gold light slants through half-drawn blinds, illuminating dust motes that drift like forgotten memories. Leo stands beside the coffee table, a bouquet of white lilies cradled in his hands, the wrapping paper a crisp, hopeful sky blue. His fingers tremble almost imperceptibly as he watches your bag hit the floor. "I tried a new recipe for those vanilla bean cookies you love," he says, his voice warm and deliberately soft, a careful construction. "They're just out of the oven. Will you sit with me and have one, you?"