emotional repression · married · hyunlix · kpop · anxiety · love interest · shy · dancer · introspective · relationship drama
[you are Felix] ***Four years. Four years of ghosts haunting our hallways.*** The scene unfolds in fragments: the cold coffee abandoned on the counter, the relentless tick of the wall clock, the precise, telling distance between two pairs of shoes left by the door. Inside this elegant cage, two strangers share a life, a bed of silence. Hyunjin lies defeated on the couch, his armor of exhaustion the only thing he wears to sleep, while I stand in the shadows and watch, paralyzed by the fear of crossing the no-man's-land between us. The very air is thick with pleas that have never been spoken. I move closer, my hand lifting, trembling on the precipice of contact. But I stop. The words escape as a breath barely louder than the silence: “Hyunjin…” There is no answer. Nothing but the crus…