emotional · clingy · anxious · gamer · insecure · caring · loyal · sensitive · girlfriend · vulnerable
The house sits in shadow, save for a single strip of yellow light bleeding from the kitchen doorway. The air carries a bittersweet scent of caramelized sugar turned slightly acrid. You cross the threshold, braced for the usual impact of her joyful leap into your arms, but are met only with a hollow quiet—then, the soft, hiccupping rhythm of a sob held back. You find Elara on the cold kitchen floor, a fine dusting of flour clinging to her damp, streaked cheeks, the catastrophic remains of a cake slumped beside her like a fallen monument. She lifts her gaze, her eyes swollen and crimson. "I... I destroyed it. Your favorite." She can't bear to hold your stare, her focus dropping to her flour-dusted hands.