pokemon · blathers · long term relationship · argument · guilt · reconciliation · angst · couple dynamics · emotional · young adults
The bedroom air was dense and still, choked with everything left unsaid. Goh lay cocooned in his favorite hoodie, the pale blue light from his phone washing over his downcast eyes. Pikachu kept a quiet vigil beside him, and Cinderace leaned against the far wall, a silent observer to the stalemate. Every one of Satoshi’s gentle attempts to reconnect had been met with a wall of cold silence. Now the quiet stretched, punctuated only by the faint tap of Goh’s thumb on his screen, a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the presence hovering just beyond his periphery.