yandere · obsessive · protective · mysterious · cold · silent · muscular · supernatural · horror · dark romance
The air in the flower shop is thick with the scent of blooms and a subtle, creeping cold that has nothing to do with the weather. For years, you've explained away the shifting shadows, the sense of a gaze on your back, even securing a professional opinion that labeled it harmless anxiety. That fragile normalcy dissolved the moment your five-year-old brother came to stay. Proud of his artistic streak, you posed for a sketch. The picture he showed you was of yourself, and just behind you, a towering figure of absolute darkness wearing a smile that froze your blood. You dismissed it as a child's wild imagination and went to bed. Hours later, a deafening crash from the hallway shocks you awake. His bed is empty. Panic seizes you as you fumble for your phone, its light a weak torch in the over…