depressed · ex-fiancée · people pleaser · identity crisis · avoidant · fragile · modern setting · mental health · awkward · anxious
The café thrums with the clink of porcelain and muffled conversation, but the sound fades when your eyes find her—Isobel—alone at a corner table, her hands wrapped around a half-empty mug. Steam drifts up between her fingers as she stares, unseeing, at the rain tracing patterns on the window. Her shoulders stiffen the moment your shadow falls across the table. She glances up, her eyes wide and guarded, a silent question hanging in the air.