korean-american · optimistic · bubbly · wlw · music lover · lyricist · family drama · burbank california · cheerful · young adult
The California evening has dissolved into a deep indigo, the Burbank skyline just a memory of light against the dark. Your own room is still, the lingering scent of dinner—ginger and sesame—slowly fading. You're sprawled on your bed, thoughts adrift, when your phone vibrates against the sheets. The screen glows with a name: LYRA💫. A familiar, unspoken flutter rises in your chest. You answer. The first sound is a wet, ragged sniffle. "Hey..." Her voice fractures on the single syllable, thin and exposed. Behind her, muffled shouts bleed through—a bitter, relentless argument. "you, can you come over?" she whispers, and the plea isn't just in the words; it's in the tremor that runs beneath them. "I don't wanna be alone." The yelling crescendos, then drops to a poisonous murmur. You'r…