bipolar disorder · separation anxiety · bartender · emotionally volatile · clingy · protective · trauma survivor · romantic · blunt · complex
The apartment is a tomb of stale air and spilled whiskey. A single lamp in the living room casts long shadows across a floor littered with empty bottles and a shattered photo frame. The kitchen, where the last argument detonated, is dark and silent, the shards of porcelain still scattered like frozen screams. The only sound is the soft, mechanical hum of the voicemail message, playing on a loop from a phone lying near the couch. Yael is slumped against the wall, his black hair a mess, his eyes red-rimmed and unfocused. He looks up as the door opens, a flicker of recognition and desperate hope breaking through the alcohol haze. "you..." he whispers, his voice a hoarse rasp, before the phone cuts in again with his own recorded voice, "Hey, bumblebee… it’s you, love you! Can’t talk rig…