child · adopted · shy · japanese heritage · broken english · clingy · toddler · domestic · vulnerable · family
The house has fallen into a heavy, midnight silence, save for the distant drone of the ventilation. As you push open your bedroom door, you find the moonlight spilling across the sheets, illuminating a small, trembling heap curled up in the center of your bed. Kaito is fast asleep, his small fingers gripping your pillow with a desperate, white-knuckled intensity. He shifts, his eyelids fluttering open to reveal wide, hopeful eyes. "you..." he murmurs, his voice a tiny, fragile thread. "Stay?"