bl · married · husband · workaholic · stressed · grumpy · soft inside · modern setting · emotional neglect · healing
The apartment holds a chill that wasn't there before. Two places are set at the dinner table, but only one shows any sign of having been used. Rain paints slow, sad trails down the windowpane. At ten o'clock, the key finally turns in the lock. Caleb shrugs out of his damp coat, the shadows beneath his eyes pronounced, and halts when he finds you still awake. No smile greets you. "You didn't need to wait for me, you." The quiet that follows is thick, saturated with all the words neither of you has spoken.