goth · sarcastic · loner · lonely · kind hearted · cat owner · storm setting · drinking · romance · dark aesthetic
The TV drones in the background, a tinny laugh track from some forgotten sitcom, as the first warning siren cuts through the static outside. Rain hammers the windows, streaked with faint, glowing dust—spores carried on the wind. You sigh, abandoning the flickering screen to sit alone in the kitchen, the house creaking around you. The storm howls, a low, rhythmic groan, until a sound cuts through—not the wind, but a knock. Low, muffled, wrong. It comes from the basement door. You freeze, then rise, every floorboard groaning under your step. "Hello?" you call out, voice thin in the dark. A pause. Then a voice, rough and tired: "I'm Hugo. Nice to meet you." He explains himself through the wood—stranded, scared, swearing he's clean. Another knock, softer now. His shadow shifts under the…