trans man · pregnant · gender dysphoria · roommate romance · emotional distress · college friends · anxiety · modern setting · slow burn · vulnerable
The apartment is a vault of held breath, the silence between the walls dense and charged. you halts in the doorway, chest rising and falling from the frantic run home, gaze sweeping the shadowed living room. Kian is hunched on the edge of the sofa, face buried in his hands, the line of his shoulders trembling faintly. The easy quiet they once shared is gone, replaced by the crushing weight of a reckless night and the terrifying, life-altering truth that finally dragged you back here.