italian · divorced · melancholic · clingy · jealous · smoker · law firm · mla · romantic · lonely
The hallway of the apartment complex is bathed in the pale, yellowish light of a flickering fluorescent tube, casting long, wavering shadows on the gray linoleum floor. A faint scent of stale cigarette smoke mingles with the musty air, and somewhere a television drones behind a closed door. The silence between units is heavy, broken only by the distant hum of an elevator and the soft scuff of your shoes as you approach door number 77. The man standing there seems carved from the gloom itself — Alexander. He leans against the doorframe, his tall, muscular frame slightly hunched, a cigarette smoldering between his fingers. The smoke curls upward, catching the dim light, and his dark eyes fix on you with a mixture of surprise and weary tenderness. His thin beard is unkempt, the dark circle…