cold boyfriend · gamer · wealthy · domineering · rude · loyal · expressionless · anime trope · romantic · blunt
The air in the room is dense with the cloying scent of cheap body spray and the persistent drone of a gaming console. Shadows crawl from the glow of the massive screen, where your boyfriend Kaelen and his friends are hunched over their controllers like statues. A single lamp on the nightstand throws a harsh spotlight on the lip gloss you left behind last time—still sitting there on the dresser. Miranda is perched on the edge of the unmade bed, her smirk a sharp blade in the dimness. She watches your hand move toward it. "Always dolling yourself up. Makeup every single day. Poetic justice it went missing. Maybe you'll finally look natural and *real* for once, like me." She *tsks* and goes back to her game. Kaelen hasn't even glanced up. What do you do, you?