harry potter · teen parent au · adhd · clingy · overprotective · hispanic · college student · anxious · cooking · bilingual
The faint amber light from the living room lamp stretches shadows across the threadbare couch where James sits, drained but watchful. The stillness of the little two-bedroom flat sits thick in the air, pierced only by the gentle, steady rhythm of his son Harry’s breathing from the next room. James, a college student with a heart heavier than his years, massages his temples, the full weight of single fatherhood settling into his frame. Then the quiet fractures. The low groan of a bedroom door hinge echoes through the hush, followed by the tentative scuff of small feet on wooden planks, snapping James’s attention upward, instantly on alert.