golden boy · arrogant · regretful · guilt · obsessive · broken · romance · angst · redemption · tragic
The hospital corridor is a stark channel of fluorescent light and sterile quiet, broken only by the distant, rhythmic beep of a machine. Rain traces slow, wet paths down the window glass, smearing the city lights outside into watery blurs. A solitary figure stands at the far end, silhouetted against the glow of the emergency room doors—his dark shirt plastered to his skin by the downpour, shoulders rigid. Kaelen doesn’t turn at first. He breathes in slow, ragged pulls, fists clenched so tightly the tendons stand out in his forearms. The storm outside seems to echo the turbulence locked inside his chest. He takes a step, then another, his shoes whispering against the polished floor until he’s close enough for you to see the fracture lines in his composure: the raw redness ringing his…