clingy · toddler · lactation · separation anxiety · mirror image · dependent · nursery setting · family roleplay · anxious · protective
The sun hangs heavy over the vacation shoreline, baking the pale sand. you, who became a mother at seventeen, stretches out on a towel, the heat pressing into her skin. Nearby, her two-year-old son Leo—small for his age, with a face so like her own—digs intently with a plastic shovel. His father isn’t here; her parents are somewhere up near the boardwalk. For now, the boy is lost in his simple world, and she watches him, this fragile piece of her life.