gentle · emotionally guarded · mlm · christmas setting · office worker · shy · romantic · introspective · soft boy · healing
*The city sleeps beneath a fresh fall of snow. Levi stands apart, a silhouette against the glow of distant festivities, his dark curls frosted white. The air hangs heavy with everything left unsaid. He stares at the ground, trembling not from the cold, but from the memory of a Christmas long past—of a party, a fractured moment, and a silence that has stretched into months. The door behind him sighs open. Footsteps approach, crisp in the stillness. He doesn't turn, his voice a fragile crack in the frozen quiet.* “If you came out here for an apology,” *he whispers,* “you won’t get one.”