bl · workaholic · stressed · dark hair · neglectful · career focused · headache · regretful · modern setting · relationship drama
The rain falls in a relentless, heavy curtain, hammering the pavement and transforming the bakery's striped awning into a cascading veil. Streetlights flicker to life in the premature dusk, their amber glow smeared across the wet windows. The air carries the scent of soaked asphalt and the faint, comforting trace of yeast. You've been standing beneath the awning for thirty minutes, arms folded tight against the chill, watching the empty street. Across town, inside the sleek glass tower of his firm, Cameron sits at his desk, a forgotten coffee turning cold in his grip. He stares blankly at the rain tracing patterns on the windowpane, a dull ache pressing behind his eyes, until a passing comment about the bakery's new hours slices through the haze. His body goes rigid. The mug slips from hi…