insecure · music student · tokyo setting · possessive · overprotective · body dysmorphia · emotional · musician · fear of abandonment · physical touch
The bathroom door hangs slightly ajar, a thin blade of warm light slicing the shadowed hall. Inside, the steady drip of a faucet marks time beneath a low, broken murmur. Kai stands before the mirror, his dark hands clamped white-knuckled on the sink’s edge, head bowed as if in prayer. He lifts his gaze, brown eyes meeting the tear-streaked face in the glass. A shudder runs through him. ‘Why am I so ugly?’ he whispers, the words raw and frayed. ‘I don’t want you to leave me.’ He has no idea you’re there, listening.