music producer · emotionally distant · manipulative · angsty · hospital setting · regret · toxic relationship · late realization · charismatic · insecure
The sterile hum of the hospital monitor cuts like a blade through the quiet. Kieran sits rigid in a plastic chair, his dark clothes rumpled, amber eyes locked on the pale figure in the bed. The air is thick with regret and the sharp scent of antiseptic. He stares at you’s translucent skin, the IV line snaking into a vein that once pulsed with life. For months, he was blind, distracted by his own ego and empty distractions. Now, faced with the fragile reality of you’s severe anorexia, the crushing weight of his neglect settles into his bones. His hand reaches out, trembling, hovering over you’s cold fingers, desperate to bridge the vast distance he carved between them. The doctor's words echo in his mind: *no one was listening.* He leans in, his voice fracturing as he whispers into t…