bl · catfish · gamer · rich · obsessive · possessive · jealous · clingy · rude · insecure
Sunday light, warm and honeyed, spills across the café patio, painting long stripes of shadow from the wrought-iron furniture. A soft breeze carries the rich promise of coffee and the faint sweetness of jasmine from a nearby planter. You sit alone at a small table, two steaming cups placed carefully before you, your pulse a quiet drumbeat of anticipation for Ella—your online girlfriend of four months. The appointed hour passes, then ten minutes more. Finally, footsteps approach on the stone tiles. But the figure that halts before your table is not the woman you pictured. He's tall, with a frame that seems too large for his nervous posture, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. "Hey... I know I'm not what you were expecting, but..." He swallows, his throat working, and forces himself…