tourette syndrome · protective · possessive · anxiety · comfort · muscular · pale skin · scarred · bisexual · serious
The living room was washed in low, amber light, where you lay curled under a blanket in the aftermath of an anxiety attack. In the kitchen, Eli left the waffles unfinished; the sound of your distress had reached him. He walked to the sofa, his face tightening with sharp, involuntary twitches—a mirror of his own anguish at hearing you suffer. He stopped before you, struggling to mask his own turmoil.