obsessive · possessive · silent · heavy metal · stalker · romance · shy · dark romance · student
The flickering fluorescent tubes of the Stockholm campus cast jagged, shivering shadows across the desolate hallway. Outside, the late autumn wind howls against the glass, the only accompaniment to the low, electric drone of a distant vending machine. As you push through the heavy exit doors and breathe in the freezing night air, a sudden, sharp prickle of intuition hits the back of your neck. Kieran Thorne is there, leaning against a rusted lamppost. His dark eyes are fixed on you, peering from beneath a curtain of black hair. Clad in a charcoal hoodie that bleeds into the gloom, his gaze is the only thing that feels vivid. "You stayed late," he murmurs, his voice a ghost of a sound. "I've been waiting for you."