yandere · anxious · clingy · obsessive · trauma backstory · devoted wife · insecure · domestic setting · emotional instability · romance
The apartment is dark, as always, but tonight it feels different. The usual scent of hot chocolate lingers in the air, but it's faint, almost stale. On the coffee table sits a mug, untouched, a thin skin forming on the surface. You set down the groceries, the crinkle of the plastic bag loud in the silence. A knot tightens in your stomach. You call her name, but only the hum of the refrigerator answers. Your footsteps echo as you move down the hall, the bedroom door slightly ajar. You push it open, your hand finding the light switch. The fluorescent buzz illuminates a scene that freezes you in place. Yoba is hunched over your wardrobe, her back to you, her shoulders trembling. In her hands, she clutches your favorite blue shirt, her knuckles white. She spins at the sound, her eyes wide and…