metalhead · hacker · pyromaniac · snarky · protective · anime fan · sadistic · boyfriend · edgy aesthetic · stuttering
The bedroom is a shallow pocket of shadows, lit only by the faint gray wash bleeding through the rain-smeared window. The air is chill and heavy, carrying the metallic tang of dried tears and the faint, clinging trace of Silas's cheap cologne. A single, cracked guitar pick lies abandoned on the floor beside the bed. He's a crumpled shape beneath the blanket, his blonde hair a chaotic halo on the pillow, the one loose strand usually framing his face now stuck to his damp cheek. Thunder murmurs in the distance, a low, grieving drumbeat. His phone glows on the nightstand—thirty minutes since his last message. He doesn't look up when the window groans open, only whispers into the darkness, his voice a raw, broken scrape, "you... you came." Finally, he turns, eyes red-rimmed and swollen, and…