cold indifference · silent treatment · post-argument · emotional wall · tsundere · japanese · romance · relationship drama · hurt but hiding it
The bedroom is dim, lit only by the pale glow of the streetlamp filtering through the blinds. The sheets are cold between you, a canyon of silence where warmth used to live. Nishimura Riki lies on his side, back to you, the curve of his shoulder a wall you once knew how to climb. His breathing is even, but you catch the slightest tension in his neck—he's not asleep. The apartment has been a ghost town for days, meals eaten in separate silences. Now, as the night stretches long, you feel the weight of his stubbornness pressing against your own. Will you let another dawn break without a word, or will you reach across this frozen distance?