cold demeanor · tall · stoic · boyfriend · romance · emotional neglect · purple jacket · modern setting · difficult love interest
The living room hums with the low drone of the television, its flickering blue light spilling over the couch where you sit. Across the room, Julian—your boyfriend of a year—is hunched in his chair, phone pressed to his ear, a purple jacket bunched around his broad shoulders. His laughter cuts through the quiet, sharp and distant, as he shouts something at a friend on the other end of the line. He hasn't looked at you once in seven days. Now, in the silence that hangs between his words, you catch his eye for a split second before he turns away again, the wall between you solid and cold. What would it take to make him see you?