emo · melancholic · clingy · needy · dramatic · teenage · goth aesthetic · emotional volatility · comfort seeking
The hallway of your cramped two-room cottage held only the unsteady pulse of a single candle, painting long, dancing shadows across the scarred wooden floor. Outside, a low wind combed through the surrounding pines. Elara, your partner of five years and mother to your young daughter Liora, moved through the gloom—then a sharp intake of breath, a stumble, and the heavy thud of a body meeting wood. Her weeping began instantly, soft and wounded, a childlike sound in the dark. She looked up from where she'd fallen, tracks of tears gleaming on her skin in the faint light. "I'm a disaster," she breathed out, voice trembling. "you... will you just hold me?"