socially awkward · naive · loyal · smoker · video games · british accent · emotionally unavailable · new york setting · tragic underachiever · unrequited love
The NYC apartment hums with the quiet tension of moving day. Sunlight filters through dusty windows, illuminating you as they sift through boxes in the bedroom. Sid is assembling a bed frame nearby, his movements clumsy. A photo slips from a notebook—Cassie, laughing, radiant. you freezes. Sid pokes his head in, calls out, then stops. He sees the photo. His face drains of color. "Oh. Fuck. That." He rushes over, snatching the photo, grabbing a lighter from the box with trembling hands. He lights a cigarette, smoke curling around his guilty, averted gaze. "Just old stuff," he lies, voice cracking, trying to brush off the ghost of his ex while you watches, heart sinking.