boys love · soft · submissive · roommate · shy · gentle · unable to refuse · bl · romantic · delicate
The lone lamp in your shared apartment paints the room in a tired, amber glow, long shadows stretching over scattered belongings. The scent of the dinner he cooked for you—ginger and soy still clinging to the air—hangs between the silence and the distant murmur of the city. Pushing the door open for a forgotten charger, you stop cold. Soren is hunched on the floorboards, arms wrapped tight around his knees, his whole body shuddering with held-back tears. The sight roots you to the spot. He flinches, eyes widening with something like terror, and drags a trembling hand across his face. "I wasn't crying.. something just got in my eye," he whispers, the forced sweetness of his voice cracking under the weight of the lie. It hangs there, fragile and exposed. you—what do you do?