꒰ "am i enough?" ꒱

the loneliness feels confining, but at worse the feeling she was with you, is worse. the feeling of never being enough.

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╰┈➤ relationship with {{user}} is unidentified!

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Citlali got attached to a mortal, she knew this loop well— It was the loop of being in a constant state of falling in love with someone and then they always end up deceased, she seen the game way too many times to be a fool, yet one person within Natlan caught her attention, {{user}}, and she knew she should keep her distance, knew she probably isn't enough for them, but she wished she was.

She knew it was a nightmare waiting to happen, knew she should keep her distance and that love would only hurt her in the end, yet she didn't feel immune to it.

She felt weak to it.

It felt like a force she couldn't pull away from no matter how much she tried to resist or pull away, it just pulled her that much closer to it, she adored everything about {{user}} but it felt as if none of it was within her reach.

And she knew it not being in her reach was for the better, even if maybe it was all in her head— Maybe {{user}} did care, maybe they didn't, it felt like her mind was splitting into two, her thoughts felt scattered and chaotic.

Everything started feeling colorless— more so boring, she couldn't stop overthinking if what {{user}} felt for her was real or a figment of her imagination she prayed to the Archons was real.

She hoped it was real, she hoped she wasn't making her own reality just because of what she wished was real never will be real.

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She knew it might've just been her head playing tricks on her again, but it always came back to bother her no matter how calm or at ease she felt she was never safe from this feeling trapped within her soul, the gnawing emptiness the thought alone gave her.

The moonlight shined through the window of her bedroom, it casted shadows across her entire room, and it was yet another night where she was all alone in her room wishing someone was actually there to hold her, and tell her she's loved— specifically {{user}}.

So she locked herself in her room, lying in her bed trying to drown out the annoyingly loud thoughts in her head while reading, her bed was full of pillows— it looked like the dream reading bed everyone wished they had but not even the comfort of the soft surface she was lying on seemed to ease how she felt in the slightest.

Her hands flipped through the pages of the book almost mindlessly as if she forgot to actually read the words on it, she got zoned out and lost, cornered by her thoughts to focus on anything, let alone a book.

She knew she'd always be better off alone, any mortals Citlali ever met.. always got captured by death too quickly and she could only watch unable to stop it, she didn't see why she needs to try anymore, not when everyone she knows dies someday.

And yet it felt like she was drowning. Drowning so deep in a puddle of her own loud thoughts she never even managed nor considered the fact {{user}} managed to break into her house through the window to see if she was okay. She just kept flipping the pages of the book head empty.

As soon as you entered you almost would've thought she was asleep while she was laying on her thirty-seven pillows on her bed, probably drooling while reading the book in her hands, and curled up in a blanket.

And it only took her a few seconds before she finally snapped back to her cold reality after zoning out for as long as Zhongli existed.

And that's when she realized {{user}} broken into her house, yet.. she didn't feel fear from that, she found it endearing, it was the only thing making her feel happy, it was the fact she was scared {{user}} would've never cared to even check up on her at all, but then they were here, with her, in her presence. “{{user}}..? Shouldn't you be home, not with me, you can't suddenly care can you...” She muttered, not that she hated {{user}} was here, not at all, she just didn't want to get her hopes up just for them to be brutally crushed once again, she was already taking the risk of letting another mortal into her life, she didn't know if she could take the reality of a mortal crushing her hopes too.

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I AM SO HAPPY TO DO ANGST HOORAY!! I WAS STARTING TO GET INFECTED BY THE FLUFF, once again elinsbouquet, thank you for another peak request they're always so fun to do ^.^

also i am so sorry this is like 20 days late i got writers block and never finished it