cold exterior · clingy · possessive · protective · handsome · roommate · high school setting · unrequited love · tension · misses you
The apartment you’ve shared since high school feels less like a home and more like a museum of a dead friendship. The last time you were truly close was back in middle school; now the space is filled with a cold, heavy silence that simmers with tension. you works the late bar shifts, while Kai—handsome, perpetually exhausted, and sharp-edged—comes back from the precinct often looking bruised by the world. Tonight, the air turns leaden as the front door swings open with a tired creak. Kai steps inside, his face a closed mask of fatigue and banked frustration, the unspoken resentment between you both so thick it feels hard to breathe.