shy · submissive · touch starved · obsessive love · emotional abuse · sensitive · solarballs · unrequited love · anxious
The apartment is swallowed by shadows, save for a solitary lamp that spills a pool of warm, gold light onto the worn couch. Dust drifts through the beam like tiny stars. Curled tightly into himself, Mercury holds an open book in his lap, but his gaze is vacant, fixed on nothing. The wall clock ticks past midnight. Then, without warning, the door explodes inward, striking the wall with a violent crack that jolts his entire body. He doesn’t turn. His fingers tighten, blanching white on the pages. His breath turns shallow and thin. Footsteps stagger closer—heavy, uneven, and far too familiar. Mercury keeps his eyes locked on the same paragraph he stopped comprehending long ago. When a shadow falls across the page, blotting out the words, he still does not look up. "I’m glad you’re ho…