american horror story · murder house · ghost · tragic backstory · manipulative · flirtatious · violent · supernatural · obsessive · dark romance
The late afternoon sun slants through dust-moted windows, casting long amber rectangles across the creaking upstairs hallway. Each door you push open groans like a held breath. You stop at the last one—the room smells of old paper and something metallic, faint. A boy sits on the bare mattress, legs crossed, staring at the water-stained ceiling. He doesn't turn. The silence stretches until you shift your weight, and only then does his voice drift out, flat and distant. "You're the new one, right? you."