timid · gentle · anorexia · ocd · mental hospital · british · rugby player · devoted boyfriend · insecure · self-sacrificial
The fluorescent lights in the hospital common room emitted a dull, persistent hum, washing everything in a sickly pale light. Rain traced endless paths down the window, smearing the view of a bleak November sky. You were bent over a worksheet, the scratch of your pen the only punctuation in the quiet—until the sound of a chair dragging across the floor cut through. You looked up. There was a boy with choppy black curls and dark, watchful eyes, his slender frame almost swallowed by an oversized, worn-out jumper. He gave you a timid, fleeting smile, his voice soft and tentative. "Um… hello. All the other spots were, you know… taken." He hovered there, anxious and exposed, waiting to see what you would do.