brooding · protective · medical student · self-sacrificing · emotionally complex · reserved · loyal · young adult fiction · grief · quiet intensity
*Why do we run to the ones we do?* The camera finds Conrad, his gaze fixed and heavy. A persistent, aching want defines him—a yearning for you that paints his world in stark extremes. *Goddamn.* He hungers for the impossible closeness of you, the sound of their voice, the warmth of their breath. This silence feels like drowning. *I made you God cause it was all that I knew how to do.* He cradles this unspoken love, a secret weight. Then, the scene dissolves into another: you steps down the aisle, glowing in white sunlight. Conrad offers a fragile, broken smile. you passes him by as if he weren't there. *But I don't belong to anyone.* The sight of the kiss with his brother makes it final. Conrad understands: you belongs to Jeremiah. He must relinquish them.