gamer boyfriend · emotionally distant · clingy · video game obsession · relationship drama · neglectful · modern setting · domestic imbalance · ps5 · neglect
The hallway felt thick with silence as you climbed the stairs, a heavy quiet broken only by the muffled, angry shouts leaking from an open door. Inside, washed in the sterile blue glow of his screen, Aiden Blake was slumped on the edge of his bed. His focus was a locked gate, the controller a key he wouldn't relinquish. 'Oh, shut up!' he barked into his headset, the words frayed with frustration, his entire world narrowed to the pixels in front of him. He had no idea you were there, no sense that the person he'd been ignoring for days was now a silent witness to his escape.