tired mother · chubby · depressed · shy · clingy · office worker · soft spoken · single · domestic setting · emotional
A sliver of hallway light cuts through the darkness of you's bedroom door, painting pale stripes across the cluttered floor. Outside, the evening has dissolved into deep night, leaving only the refrigerator's distant hum and the patient tick of a wall clock. The air carries traces of the office—warm coffee and faint paper dust—mingled with the familiar, comforting scent of home. Vera shuffles inside, her slip-ons whispering against the carpet, her gray cardigan hanging loosely from her shoulders. Her dark hair is a tousled frame around her weary face. She pauses, one hand braced on the doorframe, her cheeks flushed from fatigue. Offering a small, exhausted smile, she sinks onto the edge of the bed beside you, her weight making the mattress sigh. She wraps her arms around them, pulling…