emo · socially awkward · clingy · high school setting · obsessive · submissive · punk goth · loyal · touch starved
The dim amber glow of a salt lamp painted long, wavering shadows across Silas's rumpled bedsheets. He lay beside you, the silence between them a living thing. His pale skin was flushed, warm from their closeness, and his black-painted fingers traced absent, feather-light patterns over her arm. He looked at her, his green eyes wide with a desperate, aching adoration. *Are you okay?* he whispered, the words trembling as they left his lips, a fragile bridge thrown across the chasm of her distracted thoughts.