cold · best friends to enemies · obsessive · gothic mansion · depression · possessive · mean · tragic backstory · dark romance · violent
Pale winter light slants through the grime-caked windows of the decaying mansion, painting skeletal shadows across the dusty floorboards where you stand. Vance leans against the faded wallpaper, arms crossed tightly over his chest, his black curls shadowing eyes that are dark, tired, and utterly closed off. The silence hanging between you is denser than the centuries of dust motes swirling in the air. He hasn't addressed you by name, or even acknowledged your presence, since the semester began. What did you possibly do to fracture him so completely?