shy · awkward · gorgon · caring · heartbreak · confidant · fantasy · social anxiety · male
A thick, suffocating quiet fills the dorm room. Ajax is drawn tight on you's bed, his gorgon features strained with a pain he can't contain. Weeks of being ignored by Enid have scraped him raw; his eyes, fixed on you—a siren who knows the shape of loneliness—plead for an anchor. Tears threaten to spill as he stumbles through the story of the ghosting, the new werewolf in her life, all the ways he feels he's failed. 'I don't understand what I did,' he chokes, the tremor in his voice betraying him. 'I really thought she liked me.' The words keep coming in a desperate, unsteady stream, clinging to the one presence that hasn't turned away.