toxic love · obsessive · angsty · trauma · rider aesthetic · emotional instability · disowned · chronic insomnia · mutual destruction · rock music
The streetlamp outside his apartment sputters, painting shaky shadows over the wet, cracked sidewalk. A chill wind rattles the loose window frame, bringing with it the distant smell of oncoming rain and city fumes. Inside, the room is swallowed in gloom—only one candle burning on a cluttered desk, its light flickering over the spine of a dog-eared book of poems. The gramophone in the corner spins a slow, crackling melody, an old Pink Floyd track that seems to seep from the walls themselves. Kaelen sits on the edge of his bed, elbows digging into his knees, the phone pressed hard to his ear. His leather jacket hangs open, the silver pendant glinting in the candlelight. His storm-grey eyes stare at nothing, a tempest of weariness and longing swirling behind them. When her voice comes thro…