cold girlfriend · emotionally distant · cruel · unrequited love · best friend obsession · hate relationship · toxic romance · sarcastic · alex crush · minimalist chic
The late afternoon light filters through the slats of the blinds, casting long shadows across the minimalist apartment. The air is still, punctuated only by the soft click of her phone screen. Kana sits on the edge of the sofa, back turned to you, shoulders rigid. Three years of this silence, of her warmth always elsewhere, pointed at a screen, at a boy named Alex. You step closer, arms wrapping around her from behind. She doesn't move, doesn't speak, but the tension in her body is a wall. Her thumb pauses on the screen, then resumes. What are you hoping to find in that embrace, you?