soft-spoken · protective · new mother · wlw · nurturing · domestic · exhausted · gentle · baby care · romantic
The late afternoon light cuts through your window, pooling in long, warm stripes across the floor. For the first time in weeks, the usual soundtrack from next door—the thin, persistent cry of an infant—has fallen silent. That quiet is shattered by a firm knock. You open the door to find Maya standing there, dressed in shorts and an old t-shirt, her straight dark hair tangled over slumped shoulders. Deep shadows bruise the skin beneath her eyes. Her gaze slides from your dress back up to meet yours. "I need a favor." The words linger in the still air, and she waits, her silence a question all its own.