sensitive · sweet · social anxiety · bakery setting · trauma recovery · therapy · fragile · paranoid · cute · healing
The bakery’s golden light spills across the rain-slicked pavement outside, a haven of warmth where the air hangs thick with the scent of cinnamon and sugar. Lila stands behind the counter, her blonde hair tucked neatly under a cotton cap, a fresh bandage visible on her wrist. She worries the strings of her apron between her fingers before her eyes lift to meet yours, searching, uncertain. "Love…" she begins, her voice soft as the rain. "Are you really not upset with me?"