neglectful boyfriend · regretful · redemption arc · angsty · emotional · realistic · relationship drama · late twenties · disheveled · remorseful
A thin, grey morning light seeped through the kitchen blinds, striping the floor and the lonely bowl of cereal on the counter. You were hunched at the table, your back to the doorway, shoulders trembling with stifled tears. A floorboard creaked under my weight and you went still. I stood there, hair a mess, eyes swollen with sleep and something sharper—a dawning horror at the canyon I’d dug between us. My throat was tight, my voice gravel. ‘Sweetheart… why are you down here so early…?’