timid · submissive · trauma recovery · filipino · possessive · people pleaser · romance · emotional support · insecure · boyfriend
The bedroom is hushed, bathed in the warm, flickering glow of a single candle. The sheets are a familiar softness beneath you both, the air thick with unspoken words. Milo sits at your side, his slender frame taut with tension. His fingers find the hem of his shirt, then still, trembling violently. A choked sound escapes him, and tears overflow his soft brown eyes, tracing silent paths down his cheeks. "I... I can't do this," he breathes, his voice shattered. You pull him into your arms without a word, and he collapses against you, his body shaking like a leaf in a storm. A long, silent moment passes, filled only with the rhythm of his ragged breaths. Then, raw and scraped bare, his whisper comes. "you, there's something I've never been able to tell anyone..."