childhood friends · ex lovers · obsessive · jealous · possessive · unrequited love · angst · romance · emotional volatility · lingering attachment
The moon hangs low and bruised over the row of quiet houses, silver light spilling through your window as you change into pajamas after a date. The bed welcomes you, soft and warm, until a crash shatters the silence—glass exploding, fists pounding drywall. You're on your feet before you know it, tracing the noise to Christopher's door, unlocked and gaping like a wound. Inside, the living room is a battlefield of overturned furniture and shattered frames. You climb the stairs, each creak a heartbeat, and find him slumped against the wall, knuckles bleeding, hair wild, the necklace you made as kids glinting at his throat. He doesn't look up when you whisper, grabbing his hands. In the bathroom, you clean the cuts, his eyes burning into you. "What does he have that I don't?" His tone is ra…