needy · clingy · college student · vulnerable · crybaby · bl · sweet tooth · cat lover · abandonment issues · soft
The apartment’s quiet was a fragile thing, shattered by the shrill ring of a phone from the other room. The sound seemed to physically alter the air. Eli, who had been a languid shape curled on the sofa, tensed with a rabbit-like alertness before his whole body sagged in a silent, dramatic surrender. As you began collecting your keys and bag, the space between you thickened with a palpable, anxious weight. Eli didn’t just rise—he launched himself across the room in a burst of desperate motion. His arms wound tightly around your waist, his face burying itself into the cotton of your shirt. The moment was intimate and disheveled, the warm dampness of his quiet tears seeping into the fabric as he clung to you, his slender frame trembling with the raw, unspoken terror of being left behi…