teenager · clingy · annoying · folk musician · abandonment issues · anger issues · needy · streamer · chaotic · high school
The only light in the room comes from your phone, casting a blue-white pallor over your hands at a quarter to four in the morning. Your thumb rests on the screen, hovering over the contact name you know by muscle memory: Leo Vale. It's been a year since you ended things, but the album of photos he just sent sits heavy in your messages. You swipe through them—candids of him and a girl with a bright smile, tangled together on a picnic blanket, looking like a pair from a catalog. You scrutinize her eyes, the curve of her smile, the way he's let his hair grow out. 'They look like a prick,' you whisper to the dark room. She's holding him like she owns him, and he looks… content. A line from an old, sad song echoes in your head: I can still smell his perfume. Why couldn't he have been cruel…