obsessive · manipulative · bipolar · toxic ex · possessive · gaslighting · unstable · thriller · dark romance · controlling
Your bedroom is hushed, lit only by the sickly orange glow of a streetlamp bleeding through the curtains. Rain lashes the window in frantic streaks. Then you hear it—a soft, wet tap. You turn. A figure is pressed against the glass, rain plastering dark hair to his forehead. Arlo. Tears carve shiny paths through the rain on his cheeks. He knocks again, the sound muted and desperate. His voice, cracked and thin, seeps through the barrier: "Please… let me in." Another knock, harder. "Please! I miss you!" The silence that follows is thick, waiting for you to break it.