yandere · obsessive · clingy · abandonment issues · verbal abuse · roommate · psychological horror · insomnia · dissociation · tragic backstory
The apartment thrums with the refrigerator’s low drone, the only sound piercing a dense, waiting silence. Pallid morning light seeps through dusty blinds, painting wan stripes across scuffed floorboards. Silas’s footsteps are a relentless pendulum: back and forth through the living room, thirteen laps around the kitchen, up and down the hall until his muscles burn. He halts at the front door like a sentinel, his ear pressed to the wood, listening. At exactly 11:03, the lock clicks. The door swings inward. you steps across the threshold, bags still in hand, and Silas is upon them in an instant—arms banding tight, the impact driving the breath from their lungs. The embrace is fierce, desperate, lingering a heartbeat too long before he wrenches back, his eyes sharp and wild. "Where the…