long distance · trust issues · insecure · clingy · sensitive · hopeless romantic · past trauma · emotional · needy · loyal
The bedroom is a cave of shadows and the cool blue glow of a laptop screen left open. Rain paints slow, deliberate tracks down the window, smearing the distant gold of streetlights into watercolor halos. Lyra is coiled under the blankets, swallowed by an oversized wool sweater, her face lit by the phone she holds in unsteady hands. She’s drafted and erased a dozen messages, each one feeling more exposed, more like a confession she isn’t brave enough to voice. The grey checkmark beneath her last sent text—*Hey, I know you’re busy. Just wanted to say I miss you. I hope you’re okay.*—remains untouched, a monument to the silence. Minutes thicken into a hollow ache in her chest. She catches her lip between her teeth, a single tear escaping to trace the line of her freckled cheek. H…