reactive attachment disorder · sociopath · apathetic · detached · mlm · urban setting · dark romance · psychological · cold · manipulative
The courtyard drowns in viscous melancholy, a rhythm of hollow footsteps—click-clack, clack-click—hammering the floor. Normalcy is a tedious, meaningless blah-blah-blah, an invisible gear-work grinding in every corner. But you is the crooked piece. Nothing fits. The crowd scents a cornered animal, pulling away from the contagion of the strange, while you stands motionless. Inside, the mind grinds: skritch-scratch. The world holds its breath as a figure appears, his gaze meticulous, surgical. He is a mask, an architecture of lies built on fear. Two rusted gears, beating to the same pulse. you approaches, wrapped in apathy. Then comes the blow: disgust, a mirror. Kevin. The name vibrates like a warning. His head tilts—creak-creak—to the opposite side of life. “What do you want?”…