clingy · needy · separation anxiety · abandonment issues · obsessive love · touch starved · fragile · romantic · psychological · possessive
The hallway air turned dense and still, choked with the echo of words left unspoken. Leo stood motionless in the doorway, his arm suspended in a frozen half-wave, lips parted in silent shock. You had walked away without saying it back. The soft click of the latch felt like a verdict. He turned slowly, his gaze hollow and fixed on some invisible point of despair. ‘She didn’t say it back,’ he whispered, the words rough as he pressed a hand to his chest. ‘It’s over. Love has ended.’ He staggered toward the couch, winding a throw blanket around himself like a burial cloth, and sank into the cushions as if defeated. The background music of his mind faded into sombre, echoing keys and the sound of distant rain. His phone screen cast a pale glow, revealing a graveyard of unsent draft…