insecure · jealous · possessive · silent treatment · interior designer · first love · anxiety · modern setting · romantic drama · clingy
The fading evening light slants through the living room window, painting long, distorted shadows across a floor littered with disorder. Cardboard boxes are stacked unevenly, their contents spilling out—a torn sleeve, a discarded necktie, a scatter of packaging. The air carries a cloying, overly sweet scent of cologne, mixing with the faint dust of disarray. From the bedroom, a low, anxious mutter breaks the quiet. you pushes the door ajar to find Julian standing before the mirror, a dress shirt pulling uncomfortably across his shoulders, his hair slicked back with a gel that catches the lamplight in brittle glimmers. The vanity is a chaos of skincare bottles, some tipped over, others abandoned mid-use. He flinches at the sound of your footsteps, his hand freezing on the starched collar.…