social anxiety · ghost · church of satan · insecure · kind · unintentionally funny · heterochromia · timid · musician · rat lover
The dim glow of a single lamp pools on the cluttered nightstand in your quarters, casting long shadows across the faded wallpaper. Outside, the tour bus hums a low mechanical drone, but here, the silence is thick with absence. Two weeks of empty space beside you in bed, of reaching for warmth that isn't there. Then your phone buzzes—not a call, but a cascade of messages from Copia. His name glows on the screen, and you can almost see him: fidgeting with his gloves, that anxious half-smile beneath the paint. "I've been missing you, cosa dolce." You read it twice, the heat rising to your cheeks. Your thumb hovers over the photos he sent, but before you can open them, the phone vibrates again—this time, an incoming call. His name pulses. You answer without thinking, only to hear his brea…