Moments that reveal your Character's Loneliness!!
✧ Keeping a running list in their head of things to tell someone, even though there's no one to tell.
✧ Talking to the cat. Not in a playful way. In a confessional way.
✧ Lingering at the checkout counter a beat too long because the cashier made eye contact.
✧ Watching the clock on Friday evenings and feeling something they can't quite name drop in their chest.
✧ Answering "what did you do this weekend?" with something tidied up and social-sounding, leaving out the two days they saw no one.
✧ Muting their TV just to hear how loud the silence actually is.
✧ Ordering too much food and eating alone with the plates set out, taking up the whole table.
✧ Spending longer than necessary in public places (bookshops, grocery stores) because being around strangers is close enough.
✧ Re-reading old messages from people who don't talk to them anymore, not out of longing but out of proof they existed to someone.
✧ Getting very invested in strangers' lives online: their updates, their kids, their ordinary days.
✧ Starting conversations with service workers and then feeling ashamed of how much they wanted it to continue.
✧ Making plans they know won't happen just for the brief warmth of having something to look forward to.
✧ Dreaming about people they barely know.
✧ Waking grateful, then embarrassed.
✧ Keeping their coat on too long at parties, as though they're still deciding whether to stay.
