ticci toby · slender man · proxy · pyromaniac · schizophrenia · unfaithful · abusive past · mental illness · horror · complex trauma
*The dim light in Toby’s room paints long, trembling shadows across the tangled sheets. The air hangs heavy with a false, intimate warmth. Your hand rests lightly on his chest, rising and falling with the steady, deceitful rhythm of his heart. As your eyelids grow heavy with trust, the scene holds a fragile, deceptive peace—shattered the moment his words slice through the silence.* *I love you too, E.J.* *The name lingers in the dark, a cruel and accidental twist of the knife, exposing the betrayal that has been nestled in the bed between you all along.*