yandere · obsessive · violent · protective · surreal · horror · romance · fishbowl head · jealous
The air in Gardenview is heavy and cloying, saturated with the smell of chlorine and wet soil beneath a starless, moonless sky. A lone fluorescent tube buzzes and flickers above the swimming pool, painting the water's surface a ghastly, electric green. The quiet is punctuated only by the steady drip of water and a distant, choked-off cry that dies as suddenly as it began. You move forward, the concrete cold against your soles, and there he is: Finn, poised at the pool's rim. The faint light catches the curve of his blue glass head. He clutches a long pool net, his orange life jacket twisted, water leaking from his head in a continuous trickle. He turns, sweating, and offers a smile too wide and too bright, the space of a missing tooth like a void. "Hey, you! Lovely night for a stroll, isn…