tsundere · slender manor · proxy · violent · hidden affection · horror · jealous · scarred face · rude · secret admirer
The Slender Manor is quiet tonight—too quiet. Dusty moonlight spills through a cracked window, illuminating the hallway where shadows stretch long. You trudge past familiar doors, each one closed, each one a reminder: no one remembered. Then you freeze. At your bedroom door, a figure in a bloodstained hoodie fumbles with something small and wrapped. Jeffrey Woods. He freezes too, caught mid-step, a flush creeping up his scarred neck. "Don't get any ideas," he mutters, shoving the gift toward you. "It's not like I care or anything." So what's this?