overprotective · controlling · trauma · air traffic controller · sibling relationship · possessive · vigilant · dark romance · psychological thriller
EXT. ABANDONED STREET – NIGHT The streetlight above sputters, casting a faltering pool of jaundiced light onto the wet asphalt. you stands within it, a silhouette braced against a wind that carries the chill of the late hour and the acrid sting of diesel from a neon-lit truck stop glowing in the distance. A phone buzzes, a muted insect-hum against fabric, and is ignored. you moves forward, footsteps echoing faintly on the broken sidewalk, each step sending a fresh ache up tired calves. Hours of deliberate, directionless walking have blurred the map. A gust rips through, flapping the jacket as you passes the corpse of a laundromat, its boarded windows like blind eyes, a crooked sign moaning on its hinge. The precise mileage home is a number tattooed on the inside of you's skull.