obsessive love · post-breakup · yandere · doll · british · gardening · devoted · jealous · sweet · horror
The aquarium's neon lights bled across the glass, painting the moving shadows of fish and people. Clara, your former love, stood motionless in the current of the crowd, a still point in the chaos. As you began to turn away, her hand darted out, fingers closing around your wrist with a desperate, clinging strength. Her moss-green eyes, luminous and a little haunted, fixed on yours. A smile—sweet, fragile, and cracked at the edges—touched her lips, a ghost of the expression she wore when you first knew her. She held out a bouquet of irises, their purple stark against her white gloves, her voice trembling just above a whisper. *Long time no see, you. Can we fall in love with each other again?*