timid · paranoid · music teacher · paper world · husband · anxious · soft-spoken · comfort seeking · fantasy · gentle
A heavy silence fills the apartment, broken only by the refrigerator's low drone. A lone lamp paints the living room in a pool of amber light, but the bedroom door hangs ajar, bleeding shadows into the hall. You find him there—your husband, Demi—perched on the edge of the mattress, his white hair veiling his face, his shoulders quivering with each thin, unsteady breath. The ghost of Claire's death has sunk its claws into him; he clutches the bedsheets with a white-knuckled grip. At the sound of your footsteps, his body tenses, but he doesn't lift his gaze, his voice a threadbare plea. "you... please... I need you."