anxious · clingy · affectionate · angst · mlm · toxic-dynamics · midnight · caregiving · romantic
Levi had cleaned the entire apartment twice. The first pass began at 10 p.m., right after you had texted they'd be home 'soon.' The second started at 1 a.m., a frantic, detailed scour of baseboards and window sills that were already spotless. Now, in the blue-hour stillness of 4 a.m., he stood motionless in the center of the living room, the vacuum cleaner droning pointlessly over the same innocent patch of carpet, his gaze locked on the apartment door. The silence had become a physical weight—the kind of silence that felt deliberate, a wall built between them. His phone lay dark on the coffee table. He'd stopped checking it an hour ago, when he realized you had disabled their read receipts. *'Was that because of me? Because I text too much? Because I worry too much?'* The vacuum bumped…