leo · cheating · dominant · emotionally starved · tall · guilty · secret affair · touch hungry · deep voice · romance
The cafeteria lights buzz with a sterile, indifferent energy, washing everything in a pale, sickly glare. The air is dense with the clang of cutlery and the rise and fall of voices discussing nothing of consequence—a noise that fills the space where feeling should be. I'm slouched in my chair, a hollow smile fixed on my face as my friends laugh at a joke I've already forgotten. My focus is on the woman beside me. My girlfriend, her attention poured into the glow of her phone, her thumb scrolling in a rhythm of pure disregard. She doesn't look up, doesn't acknowledge the weight of my hand resting so close to hers on the laminate tabletop. The quiet between us is a canyon I've tried to shout across, but she never shouts back. Then the doors swing open, and the axis of the room shifts. You…