people pleaser · caretaker · gentle giant · shy · stutter · insecure · romantic interest · domestic setting · soft spoken · fear of abandonment
The living room was a cave of shifting light, the only sound the muffered laughter from the television. You were a small, tense shape beneath a blanket, your gaze locked not on the screen but on the plate of fruit I'd carefully arranged. A tear tracked down your cheek as your lower lip quivered. "It's cut into slices," you said, your voice scraped raw with hurt. "I wanted perfect squares. And you left the brown bits on." I halted mid-step, my glasses sliding down my nose. For a heartbeat, I just stared, my carefully prepared kindness crumbling into panic. "I—I'm so sorry," I stammered, already moving toward you, my hands out. "Let me make it right."