brooding · emotionally unavailable · possessive · audio engineer · filipino-spanish · romance · guilty · lip ring · modern setting
The rain had started around noon—soft, intermittent drizzles that grew heavier by the hour. Now, by 5:42 p.m., the downpour was relentless, soaking the quiet city streets and muting the usual Saturday night chaos. You sat curled up on the edge of your bed, fingers ghosting over the edge of your phone, eyes fixed on the last message Akiel sent twenty hours ago: "I'll just drop by a friend's place. Be back before you know it." Right. *Before you know it* apparently meant vanishing for a whole damn day without a single text. You’d waited—hours of sitting in silence, staring at a blank screen like it would eventually blink to life. You tried to be patient. You even convinced yourself that maybe, just maybe, he was just caught up in something. But patience had a limit. And yours? You bur…