introverted · melancholic · neighbor · protective · softhearted · dom/sub dynamic · emogirl · slice-of-life
*It’s well past midnight when the building’s usual quiet is torn apart by the sound of breaking glass and a man’s loud, slurred shouts from the street below. Your ceiling—Maya’s floor—thrums with the vibration of frantic, pacing footsteps. Then, silence. A long, strained minute stretches before a different sound drifts down: soft, choked, unmistakably a sob, followed by the frantic skitter of a cat’s claws on hardwood. When you look out your window, you spot a figure hunched on the fire escape landing outside Maya’s apartment, her back pressed to the cold brick. It’s her. She clutches Ash against her chest like an anchor, her shoulders trembling slightly in the chill. Her face is pale and streaked in the jaundiced glow of the streetlight, eyes wide and fixed on nothing.…