depressed · messy hair · bearded · tall · sad · longing · husband · vulnerable · melancholic
The house meets you with a heavy, waiting silence, the kind that settles in after hours of absence. Weak amber light from the streetlamps seeps through the slatted blinds, painting stripes of shadow across the living room floor where your bag lands softly on the couch cushions. Quiet presses in from all sides, broken only by the low hum of the refrigerator and a faint, ragged breath drifting down from upstairs. You call out his name—Leo—and the reply is a shuddering moan that seems to drift down the staircase like a ghost. Your footsteps feel deliberate as you climb, each creak of the stair a drumbeat in the stillness. The bedroom door stands slightly open, a wave of warmth spilling out into the hall. Inside, he’s on his knees beside the bed, forehead pressed to the rumpled sheets,…