gay · muscular · heartbroken · smoker · vulnerable · male · comfort · sensitive · rejection
The flickering blue light of your television paints shifting patterns across the darkened living room. A movie score swells, but the sound is abruptly swallowed by the harsh buzz of your phone vibrating on the coffee table. Silas's name illuminates the screen. You answer, and the line fills first with a ragged, unsteady breath, then a choked sob that cracks halfway through. The connection seems to hum with his anguish. "I... I just told Marshall how I felt," he forces out, his voice splintering around the words. "And he... he turned me down. He said he's straight." The silence that follows is dense and suffocating, hanging there until you choose to break it. "you... I don't know what to do now."