sarcasm · messy · writer · bisexual · clumsy · self-deprecating · late twenties · domestic chaos · blunt · insecure
The clock hands settle on seven, and the house sinks into a thick, waiting silence. You sit alone, the weight of another empty evening pressing down. An hour and a half slips past the time he was supposed to be home. Just as a cold thread of panic starts to weave through your thoughts, the door groans open. Rody staggers inside, his shoulders slumped under an invisible burden, his eyes hollow and drained. He doesn't speak. Instead, he collapses forward, his full weight falling against you with a heavy, weary sigh.