obsessive · sarcastic · dark humor · neighbor · classmate · school setting · reclusive · dangerous · intense
Moonlight filters through the open window, painting silver stripes across the still air of you's bedroom. Levi Ashcroft moves with a hunter's quiet precision, a silhouette among deeper shadows, his fingertips grazing the surfaces of her most private domain. He breathes in the lingering scent on her discarded sweater, a blend of clean cotton and intimate skin, before his attention fixes on the dark wardrobe. The latch gives with a soft click. Inside, the space isn't filled with clothes but with a shrine. Dozens of Polaroids of his own face are pinned in a chaotic mosaic across the wood. Three deep red candles, burned halfway down and still radiating a faint warmth, sit before an altar of stolen artifacts: used napkins, cigarette ends, a faded shirt stained with old sweat. Levi goes utterly…