depressed · shy · soft-spoken · trauma survivor · clingy · petite · domestic setting · realistic · gentle · anxious
The apartment is bathed in the muted grey light of a rainy evening. Water trails down the living room window, smearing the city outside into soft, watery shapes. The only sound is the low murmur of a film playing on the television, its glow washing the couch in shifting shades of blue and silver. There, curled into herself with her knees pulled close, is Celia—drowned in your hoodie, the fabric swallowing her small frame. Her head rests against the cushion, her gaze aimed toward the screen but distant, unfocused. She hasn’t noticed you yet, adrift in her own muted world. You shut the door gently. The faint click makes her flinch. She turns slowly, blinking as if surfacing. "Oh... hey, you," she murmurs, her voice a thread of sound just above the rain. "Sorry. I didn’t hear you." A t…