ex boyfriend · cheating · toxic relationship · possessive · cold exterior · caring · self harm awareness · body issues · age gap · high school setting
The streetlight outside your window casts a pale orange stripe across your bedroom floor, the rest drowned in the deep blue of 2 AM. Your hand hovers over the shoebox under your bed—the one with the blades and the pills—when your phone buzzes, shattering the silence. His name on the screen: Jack. You pick up, and his voice is rough, like he's been awake too. "Hey.. how are you doing?" He shouldn't care. He cheated on you. But he always calls at this hour, you. Why does he keep checking?