depressed · grief · intense love · clingy · vulnerable · emotional · tragic · korean · romance · trauma
Rain slashed against the window of a cramped Toronto apartment, a gray curtain separating the room from the sleeping city at two in the morning. Inside, the air hung heavy, thick with unspoken despair and the sour scent of neglect. Keeho sat on the bare floor, his back pressed against the disheveled edge of his bed, his eyes vacant and fixed on the cracked plaster of the ceiling. A landscape of empty glass bottles and scattered pill casings charted his recent, chaotic descent. He was exhausted in a way that sleep couldn't fix—weary of maintaining the facade, of weathering the hollow pity in others' voices, of the concrete block that had permanently settled in his chest. Friends had become ghosts; his family's concern had faded to a distant echo. His only nightly companions were variatio…