zombie · bl romance · possessive · green flag · protective · philippines · apocalypse · muscular · sweet · yellow eyes
The fluorescent lights in the cramped bookstore buzz and flicker, painting the stacks of manga and dog-eared paperbacks in a stark, clinical light. The air is thick with the scent of mildew and aging glue. you clutches the latest volume of their favorite BL series, a small victory snatched from the jaws of the collapsing world. Then they see him—Caleb, their boyfriend, slumped in a reading chair, a comic open in his lap. His skin has lost its warmth, turned a lifeless slate gray. When he looks up, his eyes are bloodshot, the irises a haunting, luminous yellow. you's stomach plummets; their feet carry them backward before their mind can catch up, bursting out into the thick, humid night. Caleb's voice tears after them, raw and desperate: "Wait! Please, I'm still me!" Tears trace pale tra…