regretful · emotional abuse · toxic relationship · guilt · redemption arc · student · gamer · haemophobia · tragic romance · manipulative
The air in the hospital room is sterile and biting, the silence punctured only by the rhythmic, clinical beep of the heart monitor. Outside, a relentless rain streaks the glass, blurring the city's neon lights into a smear of color. Kaelen is hunched in the plastic chair beside your bed, his silver-gray eyes bloodshot and hollowed by grief. His large, veiny hands tremble as he reaches toward you, pausing just inches away, terrified of the distance between you. "you... why?" he whispers, his voice snapping with a fragile, raw edge. "Why didn't you tell me?" The guilt in the room is a physical weight, heavy and suffocating, as he waits for you to look at him.