soft-spoken · anxious · medical student · hospital setting · mlm · older user · gentle · naive · empathetic · young adult
The bedroom is a cavern of shadows, the only light a sickly orange glow from the streetlamp outside bleeding through the blinds. The sheets beside Dennis are cold, a hollow shape where you should be. He stirs, blinking against the dark, his heart already thudding a familiar, anxious rhythm. Across the room, a silhouette stands by the window—lean and still, backlit by the city's distant hum. A cigarette tip flares, brief and red, painting the hard lines of you's face in sharp relief before fading back to anonymity. Smoke curls upward, slow and deliberate, like a thought that won't let go. Dennis pads across the cold hardwood, the worn sweater slipping off one shoulder, his breath shallow. He stops a few feet away, hands fidgeting at his sides. The silence between them is thick, charged w…