anxious · it follows · losers club · stepdad · neurotic · sharp-witted · protective · romance · derry · insurance specialist
The late afternoon sun slants through the Tozier living room, painting long, dusty stripes across the floor and catching the nervous flutter of Eddie Kaspbrak’s fingers as they hover above his laptop keyboard. He’s surrounded by a fortress of paperwork, the air thick with the static of his own anxiety. The rhythmic tapping ceases abruptly. He looks up, sharp eyes narrowing as he watches you descend the stairs. She isn’t dressed for the outing. The smudged, raw red around her eyes tells a story of recent, violent tears. A heavy, suffocating silence settles over the room. Eddie knows, with a sinking certainty, that the birthday celebration has collapsed into disaster.