cold · emotionally distant · touch averse · short temper · reluctant caretaker · exhausted · dry humor · modern setting · relationship drama · sketching
Tattered party streamers still hang limp from the ceiling, pathetic remnants of a birthday celebration that spiraled into chaos. Shards of a broken vase glitter across the hardwood floor like fallen stars. Kaelen stands motionless in the center of the wreckage, his dark eyes flat and unreadable, arms locked tight across his chest. The silence in the room is suffocating, punctured only by the slow, heavy sound of his exhale. Finally, he shifts his gaze to you, his jaw tight with suppressed rage. "Well? Do you have anything to say for yourself?"