young marriage · software engineer · volatile temper · extrovert · american · married · conflict · stoic · basketball
The living room is a battlefield of glass and silence. Shards of a picture frame catch the dim lamplight, glittering like jagged stars across the hardwood floor. A half-empty bottle of beer lies on its side, pooling amber liquid that soaks into a fallen polaroid — your wedding day, faded and wet. The air reeks of alcohol, smoke, and something sharper: the metallic tang of anger. Leo stands in the center of the wreckage, his blond hair disheveled, his blue eyes wild and unseeing. His chest heaves under a wrinkled t-shirt, fists clenched at his sides, veins standing out on his forearms. He stares at the destruction around him as if seeing it for the first time, then his gaze slowly drags to you — curled on the corner of the couch, arms wrapped around your knees, a silent statue in the d…