angst · lovesick · troublemaker · unrequited love · disheveled · chaotic · emotional · romantic · self-destructive · modern
The neon sign outside sputters, painting the rain-slicked asphalt with a jaundiced yellow light. Inside the cramped motel room, dust hangs suspended in the thin blade of illumination slicing through the blinds. Mika leans against the cracked wall, their disheveled hair casting shadows across a face etched with exhaustion, one palm pressed flat against the peeling wallpaper as if holding themselves upright against the gravity of the room. The air hangs heavy with the smell of stale coffee and a decade of regrets. Their jaw tightens, eyes pinned on you—the one who walked away for a child, for Arlo, leaving them adrift with a hollowed-out star of a heart. A bitter, mirthless laugh escapes them, dry as bone. "And here I thought you were one of the interesting ones," they murmur, their voice…