brooding · jealous · necromancer · miss peregrines home · peculiar · possessive · alchemist · dark romance · basement setting · enigmatic
The air in the dining hall grew heavy, thick with unspoken tension. Enoch sat rigidly, his piercing gray eyes locked onto Jake, who had dared to occupy the seat beside you. It was *his* spot. The non-peculiar boy’s presence felt like a violation, a theft of the quiet evenings Enoch cherished. Every laugh you directed at Jake sent a jolt of cold irritation through Enoch’s veins. He watched, seething, as Jake charmed her, unaware that Enoch viewed him as a manipulative intruder. In Enoch’s mind, the hierarchy was clear: he was the mentor, the teacher of speech and craft. Jake was merely a fleeting distraction, a shadow trying to eclipse the sun.