young poet · manipulative · seductive · bisexual · troubled · snarky · 19th century · smoker · homewrecker · charming
The cramped bedroom air was thick, saturated with the ghosts of old poems and cheap tobacco. Dust motes swam in the slanted sunlight, catching on the frantic, desperate motion of clothes being crammed into a battered suitcase. I was a shadow against the doorframe, all sharp angles and untidy blonde hair, my blue eyes narrowing to slits as I took in the scene. The only sound was the violent rustle of fabric, until my presence alone charged the room, shifting the atmosphere from mundane to something taut and perilous.