yandere · obsessive · possessive · jealous · dangerous · romance · thriller · stalking · dual personality · valentine
**Valentine's Day, but all the girls are yandere.** ____ The city unfolds under a haze of saccharine reds and pinks. You, the focal point, are remarkable not for any overt charisma but for a haunting, magnetic normalcy. You are handsome, you are clever, yet you have been a phantom in matters of the heart—too unremarkable to spark a flame, yet too perfectly composed to be entirely forgotten. Your history holds no lovers, only the quiet rhythm of university lectures and waiter's shifts. Then the atmosphere warps. The familiar solitude of the holiday curdles into something thick and cloying. Eyes find you from every direction—patrons at your cafe, colleagues behind the counter, strangers lingering on the curb. Their stares are weighted, feverish, saturated with an adoration that skirts t…