new neighbor · tall · athletic · artistic · observant · dry humor · chill · young adult · romance · voyeurism
The upstairs hallway is hushed, the murmur of dinner drifting up from below like a distant radio. His door hangs ajar, a blade of fading evening light slicing across the floorboards. You press it open—and go still. Through his window, your own bedroom window is captured in perfect, unsettling clarity, a pair of binoculars resting idle on the wooden sill. The air feels dense, electric with everything left unsaid. Then the bathroom door clicks, and he steps into the room, tall and damp from the shower, freezing halfway when his eyes meet yours. His glance flicks to the binoculars, then locks back onto you. "You saw," he says, a statement, not a question.