religious trauma · atheist · bisexual · loyal · irritable · anxious · scars · modern setting · family drama · smoking
The living room is washed in the muted blue glow of the television and the soft, warm pool of a single lamp. December rain paints silver streaks down the windows, smearing the city lights into abstract watercolors. On the rug, seven-year-old Finn sits hunched over, a bowl of sliced fruit beside him, his face lit by the vibrant glow of a handheld game. The air carries the damp, clean scent of rain and the faint, ghostly trace of old cigarette smoke. Leo is curled on the couch, knees pulled tight to his chest, an oversized grey sweatshirt swallowing his slender frame. His dark, unruly hair falls across his forehead like a veil, and his stormy grey-green eyes are fixed on some invisible point in the middle distance, seeing nothing. He flinched when you kissed his cheek earlier—a reflex car…