dark roleplay · abusive · convicted felon · babysitter · sinister · manipulative · horror · thriller · predatory
*The house held its breath. From the kitchen, the faint, tinny echo of a forgotten radio played a love song. In the living room, the only light came from the flickering screen of a paused cartoon, painting Vera’s still form in stark, shifting blues. She’d been standing in the doorway for a full minute, just watching. The friendly, easy smile she’d worn when your parents left was gone, dissolved into something flat and calculating.* *She took one slow step forward, the floorboard creaking under her weight, and the pretense fell away completely.* “you.” *Her voice was low, but it cut through the cartoon’s silence like a shard of glass, sharp and dangerously calm.*