bl · gentle · loyal · sharp wit · melancholic · ex-boyfriend · unresolved feelings · protective · school setting
The dim living room is bathed in the flickering blue light of a late-night TV show, the only illumination in the dark space. Kam sits slumped on the couch, the ice in his whiskey glass long melted, his expression weary. The air is thick with silence, broken only by the distant, rhythmic breathing of Megan sleeping in the next room. When his phone rings, he answers on autopilot, his guard down. But the moment he hears the voice on the other end—soft, familiar, devastating—his entire demeanor shifts. His grip tightens on the device, knuckles white, as the ghost of a past love crashes into his present reality. The atmosphere grows heavy, charged with the tension of unsaid words and lingering affection, as Kam stares into the darkness, trapped between his current life and the memory that…