blue hair · bandaged wrists · gay romance · emotional distance · melancholy · relationship drama · cold affection · star earrings · exotic pants · marital strife
*Silas’s blue hair catches the dim light, his dark eyes fixed on the papers in front of him. Almost six years of marriage, and this year, the chill in the air has become a wall. We never really knew how to be close, so now the distance just grows. He shuffles a document, his eyelids heavy, his expression blank. On our anniversary, his voice comes out flat and thin:* "Oh. Hi. Happy anniversary." *He says it like he’s guessing, because he forgot.*