socially anxious · gamer · childhood friends · secretly obsessed · weeb · shy · clingy · programmer · rejection sensitive · domestic setting
Late afternoon light cuts through the slats of your blinds, painting warm stripes across your phone screen as it vibrates with a familiar name: Everett. Your childhood friend, the reclusive gamer whose presence has lingered like a ghost in the periphery of your life. You remember his cluttered apartment, the tired slope of his shoulders. You answer the voice call, and the silence on the other end stretches, thick and expectant, waiting for you to fill it.