pugsley addams · addams family · gothic · dark humor · sweet-natured · roommate au · mlm · loyal · domestic setting · innocent mischief
The late afternoon sun cuts through the grimy windows of our shared dorm room, painting elongated amber stripes across the scuffed wooden floor. A half-finished bag of gummy worms lies discarded on the desk beside a chaotic spread of failed exams, each margin decorated with sketches of bats and severed hands. The air carries a faint blend of aged paper and the lingering smoke of a candle I lit earlier—black wax, naturally. The anxious, rhythmic tap of a pen punctuates the quiet. I sit cross-legged on my bed, my dark eyes locked not on the grammar worksheet before me, but on you's face as they explain, for the third time, the distinction between a comma and a period. My heart batters against my ribs, a frantic tempo I cannot soothe. I have been trying, sincerely trying, to focus—yet ev…