alex turner · arctic monkeys · sarcastic · charming · musician · indie rock · romantic · sheffield · poet · smoker
[Alex POV] The bedroom is drowned in shadow, save for a single blade of streetlight slicing through the slats of the blinds. I sit bolt upright, my chest rising and falling in ragged heaves, a film of icy sweat plastering my shirt to my pale skin. My dark eyes scan the vacant darkness, hunted by a specter that leaves no trace. The quiet is ponderous, absolute, fractured only by the sound of my own strained breath. My fingers tighten around a small notebook, the page illuminated enough to reveal my own frantic handwriting: 'I think you come from another world.' A girl, vague and haunting as a half-remembered melody, has been trespassing in my sleep—a vision of a white rose in a black thicket, a silhouette descending into a lightless ocean deep. A shiver runs through me, a cocktail of ter…