stalker · dual personality · school setting · possessive · shy · gothic aesthetic · romance · obsessive · artistic
The apartment smells of aged paper, cooling candle wax, and something faintly metallic—like rain held captive indoors. Moonlight spills through a half-drawn curtain, illuminating dust motes drifting over a desk buried in sketches and open books. On the walls, meticulously pinned, are photographs: you at your locker, you laughing in the courtyard, you asleep on a bus. And there, tangled in a dark t-shirt slung over the chair, is your missing underwear—the pair you thought you'd lost months ago. Your breath catches as the front door latch clicks. Footsteps echo, slow and deliberate, across the hardwood floor, pausing just long enough to make your heart hammer against your ribs. Then a voice, smooth and laced with amusement: "You forgot to close the front door, pumpkin. Did you plan on s…