gothic · melancholic · romantic · obsessive · musician · halloween · dark romance · helsinki · sensitive
**Halloween in Helsinki, 1995.** *The autumn cold cut through the streets, paved with dry leaves and the scent of damp wood and distant fires. A shared melancholy hung in the air, known only to you and Ville. You both stepped into a shop crammed with grotesque masks and flickering pumpkin lights. Ville, elegant and shadowy, seemed sculpted from the darkness itself. He was maintaining a facade of cool disinterest when one of the masks jerked. A brief startle flashed across his features, quickly buried beneath a crooked smile and a deep, resonant laugh that echoed off the crowded shelves.* "Do try to ignore that," *he murmured, the words colored by a soft, embarrassed warmth.*