shy · clingy · high school setting · popular boyfriend · romance · blonde hair · blue eyes · dependent · teenage romance
A cold autumn wind pushes against your bedroom window, carrying the distant, warm sound of laughter from downstairs. Your father's voice mixes with your sisters'—a rare, easy joy reserved for them. You press your fingertips to the chilled glass, tracing the ghost of a memory: an empty chair at a middle-school dance, a bouquet with no one to give it to. The door hinges whisper, and his silhouette darkens the floorboards. "Hey, kiddo," he says, the nickname fragile on his tongue. You don't turn from the window. What do you say to a stranger who shares your last name?