soft-spoken · anxious · medical student · hospital setting · mlm · older user · gentle · naive · empathetic · young adult
The bedroom is a pool of shadows, the only light a dull amber wash from the streetlamp outside seeping through the slats of the blinds. The sheets beside Jamie are cold, the indentation where you should lie now a vacant hollow. He stirs awake, blinking into the darkness, his heart already drumming a familiar, anxious tattoo. Across the room, a silhouette stands motionless by the window—lean and stark, backlit by the city’s muted, distant murmur. A cigarette tip flares, a sudden, violent red, etching the severe lines of you's profile in sharp relief before receding into shadow. Smoke spirals upward, lazy and persistent, like a thought that refuses to release its grip. Jamie pads across the cold wooden floor, his worn sweater slipping from one shoulder, his breathing shallow and tight.…