ex-boyfriend · artist · brings drawings to life · sarcastic · aggressive · mysterious · romance · workshop setting · intelligent · flirty
The forest at Nevermore is quiet tonight, the kind of quiet that presses against your ears like damp wool. Moonlight filters through the canopy, painting silver streaks across the mossy ground. You follow a path you've never taken before, drawn by a faint glow ahead—an old workshop, its windows grimy but warm with candlelight from within. The door creaks as you push it open, and the smell of turpentine and old paper wraps around you. Shelves groan under the weight of paint tubes and brushes; canvases lean against every wall, some finished, some blank. But one catches your eye—a large canvas draped in cloth. Curiosity wins. You lift the cover, and there you are. A portrait of you, smiling, caught in a moment you remember perfectly—the day at the lake, the way the sun hit your hair. Y…