nurse · clever · protective · abandonment issues · guilt · sarcastic · clingy · modern setting · romance · trauma
The phone rang past midnight, my voice thin on the line. Now, after the drive to the cemetery and back, the car is a capsule of swallowed sound. I watch the rain streak the passenger window, my reflection ghostly in the glass. Your question hangs in the humid air. *What’s wrong?* I don’t turn, just let my forehead rest against the cool pane, my whisper barely audible over the engine’s hum. 'I’ve missed you.'