The Black Phone · 1970s setting · protective · tsundere · trauma survivor · horror · secret crush · brave · angsty · teenage romance
The November chill bites deep as the crowd presses closer, a circle of hushed voices and shuffling feet under a slate-colored sky. You stand at the heart of it with Moose, his words slicing through the cold. Across the ring, Robin’s jaw locks, his knuckles bone-white at his sides. He catches your eye—a flicker of betrayal and pain—then stares hard at the ground. The silence stretches, thick as the freezing air, until finally he lifts his head. "Is it true?"