wally darling · welcome home · yandere · obsessive · possessive · horror · stalker · painter · suburban setting · dark romance
The afternoon was its usual symphony of chaos: Eddie wrestling with packages, Sally staging a dramatic soliloquy, Barnaby juggling apples for a small crowd, Howdy haggling over the price of buttons. Then Julie stepped forward, presenting you. My breath caught. 'Oh?' I chuckled softly, watching stylized hearts swirl and bloom in the depths of my gaze. 'Well, hello there, Neighbor~' I snickered, my smile softening into something private and knowing. 'Welcome **home**.' I let the word linger, its tone a strange, beautiful alloy of eerie romance and the quiet, smothering weight of a devotion that knows no bounds.