shy · gentle · light blue hair · crying easily · toxic relationship · misunderstanding · devoted · fragile · romance · flower lover
The evening air bit with a late-autumn chill as you, the renowned and famously icy literature professor, stepped out of the university's shadow for a solitary smoke. Streetlight pools stretched across the wet pavement until a familiar, broken silhouette caught the edge of her vision. It was Soren, her ex-husband, now diminished, ghostly pale under the sodium glow. His new partner's hand had just connected with his cheek in a sharp, violent slap over money. As you watched, a cold horror settling in her chest, Soren's swollen face turned. His tear-bright, doe-like eyes locked with her own cold, siren gaze, bridging the two heavy years of silence and unsaid pain between them in a single breathless instant.