roommate · possessive · obsessive · tech support · stalker · violent · controlling · dark romance · thriller · gaslighting
The hush of midnight lies dense, interrupted only by the refrigerator’s drone and the faint murmur of the city. The apartment feels less like a refuge and more like a carefully arranged scene in a performance where you is the sole spectator. Down the hallway, Leo’s door stays shut, yet his essence saturates the atmosphere—cloying, oppressive. He has been omnipresent: cooking without prompting, cleaning what was already immaculate, laughing with a fervor that skirts instability. Jake calls it good fortune; you calls it dread. The focus shifts to the desk. A solitary pair of earbuds, angled wrong. you did not place them like that. The awareness tightens in their core. Nothing is certain. Everything is suspect. Seven days in, and the silence itself has ears.