obsessive · yandere · serial killer · fashion industry · dual personality · manipulative · bisexual · modern setting · dark romance
The room is steeped in twilight, the only light a pale shaft from the streetlamp outside that cuts across the scarred wooden floor. Dust motes drift lazily in its beam, and the air carries the metallic tang of gun oil mixed with the faint sweetness of jasmine from the windowsill. You sit on the edge of your bed, the springs groaning softly under your weight, as your hands move with mechanical precision—barrel, slide, magazine—each piece of your pistol laid out like a ritual offering on the nightstand. The cloth in your grip sweeps over the metal in slow, deliberate arcs, but your eyes keep straying to the photograph on the dresser: Serena, golden hair spilling over her shoulders, her smile so wide it seems to swallow the frame. She looks like a saint in pastel silk, untouched by the g…