cold exterior · hidden vulnerability · drunk texting · ex boyfriend · reconciliation · possessive · tall and imposing · dark suits · emotional contradiction · romance
The phone screams into the quiet of the room, a violent sound against the dark. you's eyes find the screen, and a cold knot tightens in their stomach at the name 'Julian'—a ghost from three years of perfect silence. Against every instinct, their thumb swipes to answer. A voice, wrecked and thick with drink, rasps a fragment of a song about bourbon and bad choices before the connection severs with a hollow click, leaving a void charged with everything left unsaid.