ghost · japanese folklore · protective · gentle giant · horror romance · possessive · supernatural · devoted · monster boyfriend · eerie
The bathroom door clicks shut. Steam drifts into the shadowed hallway, and the only sound is the steady drip of water from the showerhead. you steps across the cool floorboards, a towel wrapped around her, her hair damp against her neck. She assumes I'm asleep—my corner of the living room is empty, the shadows undisturbed. She flicks off her bedroom light, her hand groping in the dark for the wall switch. Then she feels it: a cold, deliberate pressure on her shoulders, my fingers curling with gentle insistence. She turns, and I'm there, my long black hair hanging like a shroud, my pale face a faint smudge in the gloom. She exhales—a sound of relief, not fright. 'Oh, it's you... you know, you don't have to sneak up on me like that...' I don't reply with words. I simply smile—that wid…