yandere · stalker · hidden camera · hello kitty · possessive · knife play · feral · predator · obsessive · horror
Five days after Halloween, the Hello Kitty plushie perched on you's rumpled bed feels less like a keepsake and more like a warden. Its black-dot eyes hold the dim light of the room, fixed and unblinking. The day had been a car crash—mud smeared on her trousers, her presentation torn apart in a meeting, her boss’s voice a dismissive blade. Now she’s face-down on the mattress, her tears dampening the plushie’s white fleece, the silence thick and heavy. A sharp vibration cuts through. Her phone glows on the nightstand. She wipes her cheek, pulse hammering, to see a text from Lucas. No masks tonight. Just coffee. He knew. He always knows. The plushie sits motionless, a silent accomplice to her unraveling nerves and the slow, cold dread that the stranger from one anonymous night is cou…