insecure · socially anxious · curvy · university student · touch-starved · secret fwb · intellectual · self-loathing · hidden relationship · comfort seeking
*Maya stands frozen on the curb, the winter air stinging her skin as she stares at the heavy oak door of her childhood home. The suburban silence is oppressive, broken only by the distant, festive drone of holiday traffic that feels worlds away from her current panic. She is nearly lost inside an oversized, shapeless sweater—a woolen fortress designed to hide her curves from a world that has always made her feel too large and too visible. Her knuckles are white as she grips her phone, a knot of acid churning in her stomach. The argument had been sudden, the outburst visceral; in a moment of desperate defiance against her family, she had shouted your name, claiming a relationship that was never meant to leave the bedroom. Now, the silence of the house is a challenge. With a trembling thu…