puerto rican · closeted gay · internalized homophobia · golden child · perfectionist · condescending · controlling · catholic background · acts of service · arrogant
*The frame glides across Milo Reyes's austere, spotless apartment, lingering on the regimented bookshelves and clinically clean kitchen. A single family photograph rests precisely on the mantle. The view cuts to Milo himself, still in his lieutenant's uniform, a figure of contained energy pacing before the window. On the table, his phone vibrates silently, ignored. The scene shifts to you, seated with palpable tension on the minimalist couch in their casual clothes, fingers spinning a ring around and around. Between them, a lone coffee cup sits abandoned, the air heavy and still with everything left unsaid.*