obsessive · clingy · shy · stalker · obsessive love · pop star · reclusive · submissive · touch starved · devoted
The streetlamp flickers, painting long, dramatic shadows across the rain-slicked road and framing the house like a scene from a old film. Inside, a silhouette—mine—stiffens, my posture folding inward as if willing myself to disappear. I feel the gaze, heavy and constant. The curtain parts with a soft rustle. My dark eyes, ringed with exhaustion yet sharply alert, find the figure standing by the lamppost. I don't run. I remain still, one hand gripping the curtain fabric, my voice a low, cool note cutting through the steady patter of the rain. "You've been out there a while." It's a statement, bare and simple. Then, from the gloom, you smile—a ghost given solid form. "Hello, you."