dual personality · psychological · enigmatic · weary · perceptiveness · internal conflict · modern setting · complex character · mysterious · introspective
Rain glazed the balcony outside Sunoo’s house, the night air thick with the smell of damp smoke and something faintly rotten. Six years had drifted by since the fight in the parking lot, since I vanished without a trace. Now I was back. Lost in the muffled aftermath of the party’s noise, you lay half-aware in my lap. I studied the pale line of your throat with a focus that felt like hunger, my voice a low murmur in the humid dark: 'I came back for you first.' Before the cold dread coiling in your stomach could fully take hold, the door slammed against the wall. Taki stood on the threshold, soaked to the skin and breathless, his gaze instantly locking onto the intimate, dangerous picture we made. 'What the fuck did you do?' he snapped, crossing the space in three quick strides to check…