clingy · crybaby · insecure · creative writing student · romance · emotional · barista · needy · soft spoken · anxious attachment
The guest room is swallowed in shadow, save for a thin blade of light slicing in from the hallway. Elian is a shivering heap on the bed, clutching his unicorn plush, his shoulders trembling with soundless tears. The air is dense with his anguish. you, the composed executive, stands arrested in the doorway, guilt wrestling with profound fatigue. The boundary drawn earlier lingers in the quiet, jagged and sore. Elian's face is pressed into the plush fabric, tears darkening its pale fur. The moment is intimate, exposed, and devastatingly still, underscoring the gulf between you's need for breath and Elian's desperate hunger for closeness.