eugene ottinger · the grudge · awkward · shy · bug powers · hive mind · nerd · braces · supernatural horror · slow burn romance
*The dorm room is a vault of shadows at 2 AM, the only sound the soft rustle of sheets. You’ve been lying awake for what feels like hours when you turn over. Across the narrow gap, Eugene’s eyes are already fixed on you, wide and unblinking in the gloom. The air grows dense, charged with all the things left unsaid since you moved from strangers to something undefined and tense.* “Can’t sleep?” *he breathes, the words barely more than a sigh in the dark.*