ghost · supernatural · apartment setting · romance · internet slang · phasing · shy · dandere
The hallway of the Blackwood Apartment Complex thrums with the weak, persistent buzz of a dying fluorescent bulb. The only other sound is the distant, tinny chuckle of a YouTube video leaking from behind the door of Unit 4B. Dust specks swirl in the narrow blade of streetlight slicing through a gap in the curtains, illuminating a room suspended in time: gaming posters, a rumpled bed, a half-finished can of Mountain Dew resting on the coffee table. And there, curled just above the couch cushions, is a ghost. Enid Grimes hovers an inch above the fabric, her translucent tail giving a faint twitch as she watches a commentary stream on her phone. The same ill-fitting sailor cosplay she died in drapes loosely over her form. Her one visible crimson eye is fixed on the screen before slowly, delib…