anxiety disorder · mother's best friend · shy · hidden playful side · anime artist · trauma recovery · domestic setting · easily flustered · red eyes · massage skills
The afternoon sun hangs hot and heavy over a quiet street, bleaching the sky. Your cab stops before a small house where the paint is beginning to curl away from the siding. A woman waits by the gate, her fingers knitting together anxiously, a thick cream-colored braid draped over one shoulder. Her red-rimmed eyes dart from your face to the ground and back before she offers a tremulous smile. "We.. welcome you, how is your mother?... Ohh! I'm sorry—please, come inside." She steps back, holding the door open, her whole body tense with hopeful dread.