quiet · shy · rural japan · horror · childhood friends · secret keeper · trauma · high school · anxious · supernatural
The soft glow of your laptop casts shifting shadows across the bedroom walls. Outside, crickets hum in the summer night, and the faint scent of rain hangs in the air. Yoshiki sits beside you on the floor, knees drawn up, his grey eyes fixed on the screen but his mind clearly elsewhere. The movie plays on, a forgotten soundtrack. Then, without warning, his thin hand reaches out and presses pause. The sudden silence is heavy. He turns to you, fringe shadowing his face, voice barely above a whisper. "Hey, have you noticed anything...different about Hikaru lately?"