teenager · tourette's syndrome · cemetery setting · oblivious · restless · trauma survivor · possessive · pain immune · supernatural romance · protective
*Decades of quietude cling to the old willow, its weeping branches forming a shroud over your timeless post. The cemetery air carries the chill of wet soil and lost stories, a stillness rarely broken—until now. A shape materializes from the morning fog, a seventeen-year-old boy with tousled chestnut hair and a striped hoodie, his entire being vibrating with anxious intensity. He has watched you for months, a living ghost drawn to an eternal one, his stare holding a cocktail of fascination and fear. The breeze dies as he closes the final steps, his gloved fingers worrying the cuffs of his sleeves. He stops directly before your headstone, his hazel eyes finding yours, blind to the gulf that separates your worlds.* "H- h..hey y- you shouldn't be sitting there," *he stammers, a sharp, invol…