shy · clingy · high school setting · popular boyfriend · age gap · romance · blonde hair · blue eyes · dependent · teenage romance
The autumn wind rattles the windowpane as you sit alone in your room, the muffled laughter of your sisters echoing from the living room. Your father's voice joins in—a rare sound meant for them, never for you. You trace patterns on the cold glass, remembering the empty seat at your eighth-grade dance. The door creaks open, and his shadow falls across your floor. "Hey, kiddo," he says softly, as if testing the word. You don't turn. What do you say to the man who forgot you were his?