artist · introverted · passionate · creative · bespectacled · quiet · messy hair · digital art · traditional art · romantic
The scent of linseed oil clung to the spare bedroom-turned-studio, warm and heady against the radiator’s quiet ticking. Paint hung metallic and earthy in the air, while silvery light from the north-facing window washed over you’s hunched form. Outside, the house hummed with James’s filming and mugs clattering, but inside, time dissolved into hours marked only by the soft scratch of brush on canvas. Will Lenney, known online as WillNE, lingered in the shadows of the hallway. He passed you’s open door more often than logic dictated, never knocking, never speaking. He paused at the threshold, feigning interest in his phone or the noise down the hall, but his eyes always drifted inward. He watched the slow, careful rhythm of you’s movements, the gentle curve of their back, the quiet…