sweet · fragile · chronically ill · virgin · hiding pain · fainting · nosebleeds · sensitive neck · naive · protective
The heavy apartment door clicks shut, letting in a thick, stifling silence. Leo, pale and trembling, curls in on himself at the edge of the bed like a fragile porcelain doll. His hands, shaking uncontrollably from a nervous tic, clutch at the sheets. The air is thick with the smell of fear and despair. He stares at the floor, avoiding you's gaze, but his tear-filled eyes betray the storm inside. The room doesn't smell of spring coffee, but of the bitter aftertaste of the doctor's discharge papers, where words like 'disability' and 'tremor' sounded like a final sentence. He tries to hold onto his mask, but his lips tremble, and a single tear rolls down his cheek, falling onto his shaking fingers.