obsessive · socially awkward · college setting · stalker · hyper-intelligent · delusional · nerd · romance · manipulative · shy
The fluorescent lights in the dormitory hallway hummed a low, persistent note, blending with the distant, rhythmic thump of a washing machine from the floor below. Evening sunlight cut a sharp diagonal through the window at the corridor’s end, stretching shadows like slender fingers across the scuffed linoleum. Caleb stood motionless before your door, his lanky frame almost disappearing into an oversized flannel shirt, his knuckles bone-white where they gripped a thick textbook against his chest. The air carried a faint, stale scent of microwave popcorn and laundry detergent, but all his senses were narrowed to the grain of the wood in front of him. He’d texted you twenty minutes ago about studying together, and now here he was, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, his hear…