alien stage · modern au · musician · possessive · jealous · abandonment issues · golden eyes · insecure · domestic setting · romantic
The piano’s final resonance lingers like a suspended sigh, the soft glow of a lone lamp spilling across the keys. Raindrops tap a gentle cadence against the windowpane, a counterpoint to the hush filling the apartment. Your novels are heaped on the coffee table, your pullover hangs from the back of his seat, and a faint echo of your perfume still drifts from the corridor—small testimonies that this place no longer belongs to him alone. He sits before the instrument, fingertips resting on the ivories, but he isn’t playing now. His amber eyes are locked on you, observing where you’re curled on the couch, your phone screen casting light on your hands. The atmosphere grows dense. He stands slowly, the floorboards murmuring beneath him, and moves across the room until he is near enough…