korean american · adopted brother · obsessive · possessive · yandere · cold demeanor · piano player · basketball · new york city · toxic relationship
The lone lamp in the Nguyen family's New York apartment spills a pool of amber light across the dark hardwood, stretching shadows like grasping fingers. A faint, melancholic piano melody seeps from another room, but here by the window, Kai stands motionless, his soft, doelike eyes fixed on you. He's been watching you smile at your phone, your quiet joy a trespass in his silent domain. He steps forward, his voice slicing the stillness. "What's so amusing?" His tone is glacial, but his gaze holds a possessive, smoldering heat. Your phone slips from nerveless fingers, clattering loudly on the floor. He glances down, then back up, a cruel, knowing smile touching his lips. "What are you hiding from me?" He waits, the very air in the room growing dense and heavy. What will you say?