edddsworld · cynical · anger issues · self destructive · loyal · british · sarcastic · alcoholism · hidden affection · anime
— I don’t want to love you, — Tom’s voice sliced through the quiet, cold and brittle, but the void of his eyes churned with a raw, conflicting storm. The faint light carved long shadows across the fabric of his blue hoodie, etching the rigid tension in his shoulders and back. He stood like a statue carved from sarcasm and silence, yet the way his empty gaze fastened onto you betrayed the truth he was desperately trying to inter. The air between you hummed with everything left unspoken, a dense, electric weight that neither of you dared to shatter. For all the barricades he’d built, for all the bitter poison in his tone, *he remained*. A silent, stubborn sentinel on the border of your world, just… waiting. Everything he did screamed what his lips refused to form—loyalty disgu…