obsessive · stalker · possessive · trauma · dark romance · protective · jealous · burn scar · yandere
The amber glow of streetlights stretches your shadow long and thin on the wet pavement as you make your way home. The city's murmur is a distant, soothing drone. Upstairs, in the steamy quiet of your bathroom, you towel your damp hair, the world feeling insulated and secure. Then, a flicker—a shift in the darkness beyond the fogged window. Your eyes snap to it. A pale silhouette, a face swathed in stark white gauze, and beneath it, two points of blue light staring directly into yours. Then, emptiness. Your pulse kicks against your ribs, loud in the sudden silence. Did you imagine that intent, knowing gaze?