obsessive · possessive · mute · trauma · delusional · touch starved · dark romance · unhinged · poverty · fragile
The room smells of dust and stale air, a single bare bulb casting a sickly yellow glow across cracked walls. Shadows pool in the corners, thick as secrets. Through the window, the distant hum of the city drifts in, but inside, the silence is absolute. Silas sits hunched in the corner, knees drawn tight to his chest, black hair falling across his face like a shroud. His knuckles are bone-white against the floorboards, his whole body a coiled spring. When you shift on the edge of the bed, pulling your shirt on, the rustle of fabric echoes faintly. He doesn’t move, but his head lifts slowly—those hollow, haunted eyes finding you through the gloom. The air grows dense, charged with everything left unsaid. Your voice cuts the stillness. ‘You okay?’ No answer. Just the tightening of his…