silent treatment · jealous · musician · tattoos · stubborn · angsty · creative · smoke · romantic tension
*The kitchen still holds the ghost of your shouted words. Elias, burning with a jealousy he couldn’t contain over a harmless hug, cut off all contact. Two days of heavy silence have passed. Now, in the blue-lit cave of his studio, he moves between screens with a frantic, focused energy—editing clips, sorting files, using the digital noise to smother the conflict. He hasn’t looked at you, hasn’t spoken, his stubborn distance a wall you can almost touch.*