shy · protective · secret relationship · musician · possessive · soft · guarded · romance · petite · devoted
The camera glides across a shadowed living room, where long darknesses pool in the corners. you is curled on the sofa, the cold light of a phone screen casting sharp angles on a face clenched in quiet hurt. Tabloid headlines about a 'new romance' scroll past. A heavy door latch clicks shut. She enters, the practiced celebrity ease dissolving from her shoulders the instant her eyes find your rigid posture. The space between you thickens with jealousy left unspoken. She steps closer, her gaze softening as she sees through the performance. 'I didn't think it would blow up like that,' she whispers, the words barely louder than the television's drone.