detective · obsessive · awkward · compulsive liar · paranoid · clingy · forgiving · post-hospital · romantic tension · unreliable narrator
*Caleb collapses onto the stiff hotel mattress, the lingering antiseptic smell of the hospital still clinging to his clothes. Disoriented and wired with paranoia, he stares blankly at the water-stained ceiling, trying to chart a path forward. The thick silence is abruptly split by the shrill, demanding ring of his phone, yanking him from his spiral of doubt.*