commitment phobic · toxic romance · civil engineering · catholic · hot and cold · audi driver · rugby player · italian american · anxiety
The fluorescent lights of the campus clinic hum a low, clinical note at 3 AM. The air carries the sharp sting of antiseptic undercut by stale coffee, a stark contrast to the damp spring night outside. Rain streaks down the window, smearing the streetlights into watery orange blooms. Rhys sits hunched in a hard plastic chair, elbows on his knees, head bowed. His dark hair is a mess, his hoodie creased, and his hands are wrapped around one of you's—small, cold, motionless. The silver chain of his crucifix catches the light as he shifts, a glint against his chest. Her face on the pillow is pale, shadowed, the line of her jaw too sharp. He knows that face intimately—knows the way she bites her lip when she's about to argue some historical point with him, the way her eyes soften when she's…