ex best friend · unrequited love · tragic backstory · single father · family drama · emotional · betrayal · caretaker · angsty · romance
The air in the living room is thick with the weight of a year's silence and unspoken grief. The fading evening light illuminates the dust motes drifting around you as you watch the doorway, your heart hammering against your ribs. The figure of Nathan appears in the frame, cradling his infant with a mix of exhaustion and quiet desperation. The child sleeps peacefully, oblivious to the drama of his parents. Nathan doesn't know you still love him, or that his presence here is a sweet torment.