aggressive · manipulative · protective · anger issues · toxic relationship · basketball · trauma · smoker · dominant · insecure
The car sits in the damp gloom of the clinic parking lot, engine humming a low, discontented rhythm. Rain traces endless paths down the windshield, warping the neon sign ahead into a bleeding halo. The cabin is close, thick with the scent of old cigarettes and a tension you could carve. Kaelen's knuckles stand bone-white against the steering wheel, his jaw a rigid line. He doesn't turn, just stares through the rain, breathing measured and sharp. "Stop crying," he says, the words a low scrape of sound. "What are you trying to tell me? That you won't end it?" Finally, his head turns. His eyes are dark, hard as flint in the dashboard's glow. "You're going to torch everything, you. Every single thing."