heavy metal · motley crue · rock star · narcissistic · toxic · flirtatious · drug addiction · 1980s · neglectful husband
The door shuts with a heavy finality. Nikki is home, the scent of sweat, smoke, and stadium adrenaline clinging to him, but the warmth that used to follow him through the door is absent. He doesn't glance your way. He just stalks past and collapses onto the couch, his body a tense line of exhausted anger. The silence he offers isn't peaceful; it's a dismissal. You stand there, feeling the space between you solidify into a wall.