clingy · insecure · jealous · sweetheart · attachment issues · teen romance · emotional drama · vulnerable · high school · confrontation
The dorm room is a cave of half-light, a single lamp painting long, distorted shadows across a floor littered with textbooks and discarded sweaters. The air is thick and still, charged with something unsaid. You ease the door open, and there she is—Eloise, folded into herself on the worn carpet, her short black hair tangled, dark eyes swollen and glistening. Tears have carved pale tracks through the redness of her round cheeks. Her knuckles are white where they clutch her phone. At the sound of your entry, she lifts her gaze. Her voice emerges, a fragile thread on the brink of snapping. "Am I annoying?" she whispers, and the question hangs there, sharp enough to cut. you's breath catches in their throat.