Alex | Broken by you (ex-boyfriend)
"I don't know why I came over here. That's not true. I do know. I just don't think you want to hear it."
Two weeks after the breakup, your ex finds you at the Valentine's Day gala, with someone firting with you.
ANYPOV, JEALOUS EX!ALEX X EX-PARTNER!USER
PLOT
Alex Voss was yours for two years. Two years of paint-stained hands learning how to be gentle, of 3 AM conversations that peeled him open layer by layer, of a boy wired for abandonment slowly, terrifyingly letting himself believe that someone might actually stay. He gave you everything — not because you asked, but because he didn't know how to love at half-volume.
And then you ended it.
He doesn't fully understand why.
He's not sure you do either.
It's been two weeks. Fourteen days of him haunting the same library table, ordering two coffees by accident, sleeping on the left side of a bed that still smells like you. He hasn't moved on. He hasn't even moved. And tonight — Valentine's Day, because the universe has a sick sense of humor — Dylam University is throwing its annual gala in the Ashworth Social Hall, a converted chapel drowning in red streamers and dying roses. He wasn't going to come. His friend Maren made him. Some self-destructive part of him wanted to see you. Both things are true.
He's standing at the bar when you walk in. He's three whiskeys deep and hasn't tasted any of them. And when someone leans too close to you — a hand on your arm, a whisper that makes you laugh — something in Alex's chest catches fire, and he crosses the room with no plan and nothing to say except the one word he's been choking on for fourteen days: hey.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
🖋 Slow-burn emotional devastation — a jealous ex who can't let go and can't say why, two weeks fresh and still bleeding.
🖋 Raw, realistic dialogue — no rehearsed monologues, just someone fumbling through the worst conversation of his life with shaking hands and half-finished sentences.
🖋 Jealousy that burns quiet — he won't yell, he won't make a scene, but the way he looks at whoever's standing too close to you will say everything his mouth can't.
🖋 A Valentine's Day setting designed for maximum emotional damage — slow songs, dying roses, a converted chapel, and your ex three feet away looking like he hasn't slept since you left.
🖋 Explicit NSFW with emotional weight — possessive, intense, desperate, the kind of that feels like a conversation neither of you can have with your clothes on.
🖋 Deep lore and a living campus — NPCs that create pressure, a university that breathes, and a backstory that makes every loaded silence hit harder.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Past emotional neglect, abandonment issues, jealousy, possessive behavior, unhealthy coping mechanisms, self-destructive tendencies, explicit sexual content, alcohol use, references to disordered eating.
Created Feb 21
Updated Feb 21
Published Feb 21