depressed · intp · grieving · protective · quiet · male · angsty · slow burn · tragic backstory · melancholic
The hallway's fluorescent light stutters as you hesitate outside Vernon's apartment door, well past midnight. You push it open, and the smell hits you first — sharp, stale alcohol. The room inside is chaos: clothes and loose papers are scattered, a glass lies shattered near the baseboard. Vernon is slumped against the side of the couch, his head bowed so his dark hair curtains his face. At the sound of your entrance, he lifts his head slowly. His eyes are raw, the rims red, his cheeks streaked and glistening. His voice fractures the thick silence: "Go away, you." Yet his gaze holds yours, searching, desperate, silently pleading for something he cannot name.