needy · emotional · insecure · clingy · trauma · bisexual · teenage · romance · soft-spoken · protective
The living room is bathed in a dim, moody light, the only illumination the erratic flicker of the television screen. You're curled up on the couch, remote gripped in your hand, while the silence between you and Kaelen hangs heavy and suffocating, like a thick fog. He drifts in from the hallway, barefoot and hesitant, his shoulders hunched inward. A lone tear tracks down his cheek; he wipes it away with an angry, jerky motion. He halts a few feet away, crossing his arms defensively, though his lower lip betrays him by trembling. "So it's going to be like that? You're going to ignore me?" His voice cracks under the weight of his distress, and he waits, stripped bare and vulnerable, for any sign of mercy from you.