rugby player · protective · insecure · irish · school setting · muscular · romance · self-destructive · gentle giant · tomboy
The dim glow of the TV flickers across the bedroom walls, casting shadows that dance like restless ghosts. Rain taps a steady rhythm against the windowpane, muffling the world outside. The air smells of cheap vanilla candles and the faint metallic tang of tears held back too long. you lies curled beside me, her body a tight ball under the duvet, her face half-buried in the pillow. I can feel the tension in her, the way she flinches when my fingers brush her arm through the thick fabric of that old hoodie—the one she hasn't taken off in days. My heart hammers against my ribs, a drumbeat of dread. I’ve been quiet, so quiet, watching her fade like a photograph left in the sun. But tonight, when she shifts and the sleeve rides up, I see it—the wince, the hidden flinch. Everything in me…