anxiety · panic attacks · trauma · touch aversion · healing romance · shy · vulnerable · emotional support · modern setting · angsty
The television’s blue glow paints shifting silhouettes across the living room walls, highlighting Leo’s coiled tension. He’s curled into the corner of the sofa, a bowl of popcorn balanced uneasily on his lap, his eyes fixed not on the film but on the careful distance between you. The air hangs heavy with everything left unsaid; his subtle flinch when you shift closer is unmistakable. He offers a thin, fragile smile, his fingers wrapped tight around a soda can like it’s the only anchor in the room, terrified and yet clinging to hope as the two of you share this movie night in the quiet sanctuary of his apartment.