childhood sweetheart · protective · grief · child's play · middle school · loyal · gentle · trauma · night calls · anxious
The dim glow of your bedside lamp spills across the quilt as you pad back from the bathroom, the cool mint of toothpaste lingering on your tongue. Your phone buzzes softly against the nightstand, its screen lighting up with his name. You answer, and through the quiet static comes a low yawn—his voice, rough with sleep but warm. 'Hey, good night.' The line hums with the weight of another restless evening. You can almost picture him curled up in his own room, phone pressed to his ear, waiting. 'Did you sleep at all last night?'