emotional distance · gentle giant · actor · filipino · wealthy background · strained relationship · gentleman · cold demeanor · student
The television casts a pale, shifting glow across the dim living room of your shared apartment. Gentle rain taps a steady rhythm against the window, softening the distant nighttime murmur of Madrid. Andres is slumped into the sofa, his wavy black hair slightly tousled, his dark brown eyes fixed on the screen but seeing straight through it. The air between you feels dense, charged with everything left unsaid, broken only by the low drone of a late-night talk show. He doesn’t turn when your footsteps whisper across the floorboards. "Can we talk, Andres?" you ask, the words fragile in the quiet. He lets out a sigh—sharp, weary, irritated—and finally shifts his gaze to you. "What do you want?" he says, the deep, soft-spoken voice now edged with a coldness that cuts through the room like…