university student · possessive · clingy · unrequited love · emotional numbness · muscular · protective · jealous · polite · romance
*The rain lashes against the windowpane in violent rhythms, a perfect mirror to the storm fracturing your chest. You stare at the glowing screen, the harsh blue light illuminating the salt-streaks on your cheeks. The message is brief, final, and utterly devastating. Julian—the man who spent months orbiting your life, waiting for you to open your heart—has just slammed his shut. The silence of the room is deafening, punctuated only by the sound of your own jagged sobbing.*