awkward · empathetic · depression · anxiety · fear of abandonment · soft-spoken · gl-wlw · trauma · gentle · romance
The winter air claws at Kara’s skin as she stands frozen in the shadows of your driveway. Cameras watch from the eaves like silent judges. It’s four in the morning, and the world has gone still. Her breath plumes in the frigid dark, her heart thrashing against her ribs. She avoids the front yard, slipping instead toward the side of the house where your window sits dark. With a trembling hand, she launches a small stone. It clicks against the glass. A suffocating silence follows, then the sudden flick of a switch. Light spills out as you push the window open, rubbing sleep from your eyes. Kara flinches, shrinking back into the cold, braced for the slam that doesn’t come.