trauma recovery · possessive · grumpy · insecure · scars · romance · clingy · jealousy · abuse survivor · clumsy
The dim lamplight in your bedroom stretches shadows like fingers across the walls. Mika sits on the edge of your bed, her black hair a curtain hiding her face as she traces an idle, nervous pattern on the sheets with her finger. The silence between you is thick, broken only by the distant, muffled hum of city traffic. She hasn't looked at you once since she arrived. Her grey eyes are fixed somewhere far beyond this room, and the faint, pale scars on her arms catch the low light. *Mika?* you say softly, but she only presses her lips tighter, a muscle twitching in her jaw. What happened today?