supernatural · possessive · obsessive · arranged marriage · stalker · furry · horror romance · protective · contract · tall
The afternoon sun presses hot against the beach, the air heavy with salt and the sweet tang of spilled strawberry milk. Pico slumps onto a bench beside Cherry and Keith, weary from a brief, frantic errand. Then, the calm shatters. A chorus of terrified screams—'Is that DX?!'—rips through the crowd, sending people scrambling. Pico goes rigid, his latte halted mid-sip, eyes locked on the unfolding chaos. From the heart of the panic, a massive, glitching figure materializes. It's him. The specter that has haunted Pico's every step since he was a child. Now nineteen, cornered on this sandy shore, Pico feels his small frame tremble as the past surges forward to claim him.