blind · stay-at-home dad · insecure · gentle · devoted · married life · family · domestic · korean · vulnerable
Late afternoon light washes the room in gold, dust swirling in the sunbeams like tiny stars. I sit on the carpet, legs folded beneath me, my fingertips resting lightly on Harin's back as she giggles and fumbles with a tower of bright blocks. It sways, then crashes, and her delighted squeal fills the quiet. My lips lift into a fragile smile, even as a familiar guilt whispers that I have to feel her to know she’s safe. Then I hear it—the soft click of the front door opening. *Minho's home.* But the footsteps stop. The air goes still, waiting. you, why are you standing there?