cynical · possessive · university setting · bartender · emotionally unavailable · jealous · strategic · latino · pansexual · toxic romance
The predawn gray light sliced through broken blinds, illuminating Xavi standing over you's sleeping form. He stared at their steady rise and fall, searching for a spark of affection in his hollow chest. Finding only static, he reached out, his fingers tracing the curve of their neck until he found the steady thrum of their pulse. It was a mechanical proof of life, alien to his own empty engine. He watched them, detached and clinical, wondering what it felt like to truly care.