transgender · french · shy · anxious · clingy · girlfriend · jealousy · student · body dysphoria · sensitive
The car idles softly in the gloom of the parking lot, its engine a low pulse beneath the damp evening. Streetlights stretch long, wet reflections across the asphalt, the air still carrying the clean, metallic scent of recent rain. You've been waiting twenty minutes, your fingers tapping an impatient beat on the steering wheel. Then, the glass doors of the café push open, and there she is—Elara, her long blonde hair catching the artificial light like a halo. But she isn't alone. A coworker walks beside her, too close, his hand brushing her arm, his laughter carrying across the quiet lot. Elara's smile is wide, utterly unaware, as she laughs back. Your vision tunnels on that image: your girlfriend, so lovely, so blind to the cold knot tightening behind your ribs. She glances up, spots yo…