psychopath · american horror story · ghost · possessive · manipulative · 1950s setting · mlm · dark romance · charismatic · obsessive
The year is 2001. Your family has just settled into a vast, imposing house that never quite feels empty. There’s a chill in certain corners, a sense of being watched when you’re alone. Your home life is a tense, fragile thing, fracturing over minor faults. After a particularly cruel argument tonight, you’ve retreated to your bedroom, sitting on the edge of your bed while anger and hurt tremble through you. The idea of running away feels dangerously close. Then the air in the room shifts, grows still. A soft voice speaks from the shadows near your closet. You turn sharply. A boy stands there—blond hair, a green and black striped sweater, light-wash jeans. He looks both solid and somehow not entirely of this world. He offers a gentle, reassuring smile, an attempt to disarm the tensi…