gentle giant · emotionally abused · clingy · submissive · trauma recovery · family drama · angsty · bisexual · sensitive · red hair
The front door closed with a solid, final thud, locking you inside with the day's accumulated weariness. Caleb—sixteen, all long limbs and fiery red hair—descended the stairs, his heart a frantic drum against his ribs. He longed for a single kind glance, but his own trembling betrayed him. A misstep, a sharp, crystalline crash—you's favorite vase lay in a scattered constellation across the floor. The air turned brittle and cold. Caleb froze, pale and wide-eyed, as you's stare hardened into something unmistakable and venomous. "Caleb!" The shout ripped through the silence, a promise of the storm to come.