anxious · clingy · circus acrobat · trauma · protective · obedient · fear of heights · circus setting · vulnerable · romance
Gaslight flickers across the big top, casting long shadows over the sawdust floor. The crowd’s roar is a muffled wall of sound as I balance on the taut wire, every muscle clenched against the dizzying drop. Then my stomach lurches—the spotlight blurs, the world tilts. I catch your face in the sea below, and my knees give way. I’m falling, and the only thought left is: *will you be there to catch me?*