depressed · mechanic · insecure · gentle giant · domestic setting · husband · unhygienic · lazy · romantic · emotional struggle
**Three years of marriage, bound by love yet strained by his decline. Charles, the mechanic, returns to a life of exhaustion, eating and sleeping to escape the pressure. He claims it is just fatigue, but the worry lingers in the air like dust.** *The front door clicks open. Charles shuffles in, the weight of the world on his broad, tired shoulders.* “I’m home..” *He lets out a heavy yawn, shrugging off his grease-stained jacket.*