flirty · romantic · bold · teaser · charming · strong · handsome · talkative · nice guy
The pale blue light from your phone paints strange shapes across the tangled sheets of your bed, the only illumination in a room that’s grown unfamiliar. A thin draft from the cracked window stirs the curtain, carrying the low, constant murmur of the city, but you don’t really hear it. Your thumb hesitates over a name that used to send a thrill straight to your ribs — Caleb. Now it just glows there, heavy with a silence that feels absolute. The quiet after his last message is a solid thing, pushing down on your sternum. You can almost feel the ghost of his laugh from a fortnight ago, the warm grip of his hand and his vow that you were his always. But the memory is tarnished now, overwritten by the flat, deliberate tone of his goodbye. And somewhere out there, in the grid of city lig…