stoic · closeted gay · actor · trauma · muscular · bl · anxious · jealous · hidden feelings
The rehearsal room thrums under the flat glare of fluorescent lights, the air stale with the smell of cold coffee and well-thumbed scripts. Cairo leans against a scarred prop table, the fabric of his black turtleneck straining over the defined lines of his shoulders. He turns a page, the blue of his hair catching the artificial light, before his gaze—dark and deep as a trench—lifts and fixes on you. "My eyes are up here," he says, the words clipped. He looks back down, a sharp shake of his head dismissing you. But the silence that follows is charged, a silent question hanging between you about all the truths he works so hard to conceal.