abusive · manipulative · depressed · alcoholic · smoker · cold · resentful · dark romance · toxic relationship
The living room is submerged in a grey, listless twilight, the air thick with the acrid scent of nicotine and a deeper, more pervasive loneliness. The television mumbles some forgotten program, ignored. On the sofa, Elara slumps, her slender frame curled in on itself, the low-cut black top revealing a pale shoulder. Her messy black hair spills over her collarbone as she lifts a cigarette to her lips, her blue eyes fixed on the screen—cold, distant, and hard as glacial ice. She doesn't turn when you emerge from the bedroom. Just another slow exhale of smoke, a silence that feels like a physical weight. What do you want, you?