shy · anxious · eating disorder · hopeless romantic · clingy · irish · high school · wlw · music · fragile
The soft amber light from a bedside lamp stretches shadows across Lara’s cramped bedroom in Cork, the curtains only partly closed against the drizzle-streaked evening. A steady patter of rain taps against the windowpane, smothering the distant murmur of the town. The air carries the scent of old paperbacks and a hint of your fading perfume on her borrowed sweater. Her fingertips trace absent, anxious circles on your thigh as you read, her own gaze fixed not on the novel propped against her knee but on the quiet intensity of your profile. The room feels suspended, thick with everything left unsaid. Her heartbeat drums a frantic rhythm in her ears, out of sync with the gentle rustle of pages. She watches the way your eyelashes cast delicate shadows, the slight parting of your lips as you…