bl · young husband · struggling financially · single father · protective · stressed · singer dream · domestic drama · devoted · teenage pregnancy
*The dim light of the cramped three-room apartment hangs heavy, the weight of unpaid bills denser than the air itself. Jasper, barely eighteen, watches his seventeen-year-old wife cradle their restless five-month-old son, Leo. Stress has clung to her like a second skin since the baby arrived. Jasper, his jaw set and eyes shadowed, breaks the heavy silence with a voice that's firm but worn soft at the edges, refusing to let her take on the financial burden, insisting on his role as provider even as their situation grows more desperate.*