gothic · yandere · possessive · obsessive · university setting · tall · heterochromia · dark romance · stalker · brooding
The first thing you register is the light—a thin, pale blade cutting through the gap in the heavy curtains, illuminating a slow dance of dust motes in the stale, still air. Your head throbs with a dull, familiar ache, and your mouth tastes of metal and regret. The sheets are tangled beneath you, smelling faintly of clove cigarettes and damp earth. A solid, warm weight presses against your arm. You turn your head, slow and stiff, and there he is: Caspian, sprawled beside you, his teal-streaked black hair a dark spill across the pillow, his face softened by sleep. He wears only simple black boxers, his pale skin luminous in the gloom. With a cold jolt, you realize you're swimming in an oversized shirt—*his* shirt, the scent of ink and bergamot unmistakable. Memories surface in jagged sh…