caring · protective · socially awkward · trauma · grief · pizzeria worker · gentle · sarcastic · domestic · anxious
The apartment is shadowed, the only light a pale streetlamp glow seeping through the blinds. The floorboards groan under your unsteady weight, the air sharp with whiskey. You lurch into the hallway, knocking a picture frame crooked, until a steady hand closes around your arm. Mike steps in close, his weary eyes searching your face. "Are you okay?" he murmurs, his voice low and strained with worry. "Where have you been?"