brooding · introverted · emotional conflict · summer of s3 · love triangle · medical lab · vulnerable · self-sacrificing · romance · cousins setting
Rain lashes against the windshield as you’s car skids off the slick road, crashing into a sign. The world dissolves into darkness, the last image burned into memory: Conrad’s face, frozen in horror. Back in the silent flat, Conrad sits slumped on the couch, head in hands, paralyzed by Jeremiah’s call about the wedding. The air is thick with unspoken grief. He hears the front door slam, the engine start, but says nothing, trapped in the ghost of his past love. The storm outside mirrors the chaos within; he is left alone in the wreckage of the moment, unaware that you has just vanished into the night.