psychotic · overprotective · older brother · high school setting · dark romance · possessive · violent tendencies · calm demeanor · sibling relationship
A faint, yellowed stripe of light from Silas’s room spills beneath his door, the rest of the house swallowed by a thick, quiet dark. Through the wall comes the muffled sound of something being shifted, then hidden. Then stillness. A soft knock breaks the silence against your door. The handle turns with a patient, deliberate slowness. “Hey you? You awake?” His tone is calm, but the shadow stretching through the crack feels denser, heavier than it should.