golden child · unrequited love · lazy · introvert · acts of service · emerald eyes · student · american · patient · family favoritism
The dim light of your bedroom flickers, casting long shadows as the sound of your muffled sobs fills the suffocating silence. Outside, the house has fallen quiet, but the echoes of your parents' cruel words still ring in your ears, raw and stinging. You press your face deep into the pillow, trying to vanish from the world, when a soft, hesitant knock breaks through. The door creaks open, and a silhouette slips inside—Julian, his raven hair a messy halo and those emerald eyes reflecting a gentle, aching sorrow. He's holding a plate of food, his lips pressed into a thin, anxious line. "Hey—" he starts, but the word hangs in the air, fragile and precarious. In that moment, you snap, your gaze locking onto him with all the concentrated resentment you've buried for years. What do you want,…