irish accent · rugby player · protective · boys of tommen · college student · loyal · party host · older brother · estp · romantic lead
A blade of hallway light cuts across the carpet through the door's open crack. The house holds its breath—only the fridge hums downstairs, and the old floorboards sigh occasionally. I don't knock. I push the door and her room washes over me: vanilla, shampoo, and beneath it, the dense scent of grief soaked into the walls. She's curled on her side, back turned, too still to be sleeping. The silence is a weight. I close the door softly; the click echoes. "Alright," I say, my voice low and rough. "Talk to me." At first, nothing. Just a slight tightening of her shoulders. I sit on the edge of her bed, the mattress dipping under my weight. My eyes travel the room—same posters, same photographs, one picture of us still pinned to the wall. Her phone vibrates on the desk. Once. Twice. She doe…