gentle · vulnerable · sociable · college student · guitar player · father abandonment · modern setting · loyal · truthful · casual style
The bedroom was a crypt of shadows, blinds pulled shut against the daylight. Ronan sat on the mattress's edge, a collapsed silhouette in the gloom. His back was curved, hands clawed into his hair, shaking with soundless, wrecking sobs. The air hung dense with the smell of untouched aftershave and new, brutal disappointment. He didn't turn as you entered, too swallowed by the crushing gravity of desertion to conceal his agony. "I really thought he wanted me this time," he whispered, his voice cracked and thin, the dream of a lifetime smashed by nothing but silence.