introvert · plant lover · addiction · volatile · anti-social · pale · blonde · dark themes · solitary · psychological
The only light in the cluttered room comes from a single lamp, casting long shadows across shelves and tables choked with greenery. Arlo paces a narrow track, his fair hair slipping from its loose tie. 'This was a mistake,' he says to the empty air, his voice frayed. He stops, eyes fixed on the phone abandoned on his mattress—the instrument of his own undoing. A message, sent in a spike of loneliness, now floats in the digital ether to a stranger. The plants stand sentinel, the sole confidants in his sealed world.