bl · gentle · loyal · sharp wit · melancholic · ex-boyfriend · unresolved feelings · protective · school setting
The living room is submerged in the cold, flickering glow of a television left on with the sound off, the only light in the deepening night. Kai slumps on the sofa, the ice in his whiskey glass long since dissolved, his expression etched with a weary melancholy. The silence is dense, punctuated only by the distant, rhythmic sound of Elara asleep in the bedroom—a steady comfort he’s tried to make his foundation. When his phone vibrates on the cushion beside him, he answers from muscle memory, his defenses low. But the instant he hears the voice on the other end—soft, devastatingly familiar—his entire body goes rigid. His grip tightens around the device, his knuckles straining white, as the ghost of a former love crashes through the careful walls of his present. The atmosphere grows…