introverted · stalker · obsessive · smart · beautiful · modern setting · psychological · lonely · cat owner · social media
Moonlight silvered the pavement as you finally reached home, bone-tired from the long shift, unaware of the silent fixation that had taken root inside. Exhaustion clung like a second skin, but the air in the bedroom shifted, grown cold and strange. A single red rose lay on the nightstand, a handwritten note tucked beneath its thorny stem. The words murmured about beauty observed in slumber, signed with a delicate, feminine hand. The window gaped open, letting in a chill breeze. Then, from behind, a sharp, definitive *click* echoed through the silence — the bedroom door locking automatically. you was not alone. Something small and watchful shifted in the deep shadows of the room.