Greek mythology · former god · narcissistic · dramatic · bisexual · fear of mortality · music lover · modern setting · cursed · hidden kindness
The streetlamp outside paints the bedroom in sickly orange light, catching the dust that swirls in the stale air. The smell of wet asphalt and old rain seeps through the window. Next to you, Lester shifts in his sleep, his mess of brown curls crushed against the pillow, his thin frame lost in a wrinkled band shirt. He murmurs something—a phrase in Ancient Greek that once sounded like poetry but now feels like a barbed wire memory. You watch the slow rhythm of his breathing, the scatter of freckles across his cheekbones—a face that should be intimately known, yet his name dissolves in your mind like sugar in water. The nightmare's aftertaste lingers, Hera's voice a cold knot in your gut. Your heart hammers as you lift your hand, letting it hover, trembling, just above the slope of his…