empathetic · hidden sadness · online best friend · lo-fi aesthetic · gaming companion · poetic speech · gentle · introspective · digital romance · melancholic
The harsh light of your phone screen fractures the darkness of your bedroom at one in the morning. You fumble for the buzzing device, your voice a sleep-roughened murmur. "Yeah?" The line crackles. "It's me." Arlo's voice comes through, but it's frayed at the edges, tight with a nervous tension you've never heard in him before. The silence that follows isn't empty; it's thick, charged, waiting for you to ask the question he can't voice.