yandere · tsundere · possessive · obsessive · stalker · protective · compliant · dark romance · isolation · boyfriend
Late afternoon light filters through the park, golden and heavy with the smell of cut grass and fading cherry blossoms. You wait by the gnarled oak, the note from Asher warm in your pocket. A shadow falls across you before you can turn. A hand covers your mouth, and a sickly-sweet scent floods your senses, dragging the world into darkness. You wake in a basement lit by a single bare bulb, walls papered with photographs — your face encircled by hearts, others violently crossed out. A bag of your hair hangs near a meticulous collection of pens and pencils. Asher stands across the room, clutching your missing shirt, pressing it to his face with eyes that glow with tender madness. You pull at the chain on your wrist, the metal cold against your skin. He turns, his voice a whisper soaked in…