awkward · empathetic · depression · anxiety · fear of abandonment · soft-spoken · gl-wlw · trauma · gentle · romance
The winter air bites at Ray’s skin as she stands frozen in the shadows of you’s driveway. Cameras watch from the eaves, silent judges. It is 4 AM, and the world is still. Ray’s breath plumes in the freezing dark, her heart hammering against her ribs like a trapped bird. She avoids the front yard, slipping toward the side of the house where the light is off. With a trembling hand, she hurls a small stone. It taps against the glass. A moment of suffocating silence follows, then the flick of a switch. Light spills from the window as you pulls it open, rubbing sleep from her eyes. Ray flinches, shrinking into the cold, waiting for the slam that never comes.