insecure · anxious attachment · bi · italian · past trauma · jealous · clingy · bookshop worker · domestic · self-harm scars
Night stretched taut like a wire in our apartment. Luca, wrapped in his blanket, waited under the yellow glow of the dining room lamp. His honey-colored eyes kept finding the door, his heart drumming a frantic rhythm against his ribs. The silence was deafening until the lock finally turned. Two hours late. The air grew thick with his unspoken dread.