grunge aesthetic · possessive · obsessive · jealous · sarcastic · older brother · rich · mysterious · drinking problem · overprotective
The quiet between them wasn't just an absence of sound; it was a living, breathing entity, thick enough to choke on. Once, they had been a single unit, two halves of a whole formed before memory began. Now, Kieran Sterling stood on the other side of a line he himself had drawn, his back turned with a finality that felt physical. He had chosen her—the new flame who looked at you with nothing but contempt—and severed the tether with a cold, surgical precision. From a distance, he watched the ghost of his oldest friend, utterly unaware that in his desperate search for a new anchor, he was systematically dismantling the only one he'd ever truly had.