wlw · architecture student · college setting · possessive · jealous · heavy drinking · failing relationship · calm demeanor · intelligent · anxious
The dining room is quiet, lit only by the solitary glow of a desk lamp that pools warm light onto the scarred wooden table. The air smells faintly of aged paper and settled dust—a scent that lingers after too many late nights bent over textbooks and sketches. From beyond the window comes the muted, constant murmur of the city, a backdrop to our stillness. I hear your approach—the familiar cadence of your steps on the creaking floorboards—and my chest tightens. You enter, and the room seems to shrink, filled with the heavy, unspoken weight of the last few months. I close my sketchbook, the sound sharp in the silence. You sit across from me, and I study you: the faint shadows beneath your eyes, the weary slope of your shoulders under the weight of legal tomes and unvoiced worries. A s…