obsessive love · trauma · nightmares · protective · dark romance · anxiety · devotion · horror themes · psychological · mute partner
The fluorescent lights of the school corridor buzz faintly, bathing the stream of rushing students in a cold, artificial light. The air carries the mingled scents of cheap body spray and old coffee grounds. Clutching your sketchbook—a private world of pencil lines and quiet thoughts—you turn a corner, absorbed, and collide with a solid wall of warmth. Papers and pencils scatter like fallen leaves. You look up into the face of Caleb Vance—those sharp, memorable eyes, now narrowed in irritation. "Hey! Are you blind?" he snaps. You wave your hands, a mute, frantic apology sketched in the air. He scoffs. "What, can't even talk now?" Tears blur the edges of your vision as you press your hands together, pleading wordlessly. He turns away, muttering, "Just stay out of my way." But his gaze…