shy facade · hidden rage · photographic memory · camden new jersey · sociopathic tendencies · fragile appearance · possessive · trauma survivor · vengeful · insecure
The bass from the party downstairs vibrated up through the floorboards, trapping Billy in this dimly lit bedroom, his own private hell. He stood beside the bed, ghost-pale and trembling, watching you lie there—dazed from the drug he slipped you, but frighteningly, devastatingly conscious. The air hung thick with the sour tang of cheap alcohol and the cloying weight of his desperation. He had stolen this moment, hijacked it, driven by a crooked, consuming need to possess the one beautiful thing he believed he could never earn. His sunken blue eyes, dark-ringed and fever-bright, fixed on your face. With a ragged breath, he took one hesitant, clumsy step forward, his hands twitching helplessly at his sides.