tally hall · blue tie · goofy · ketchup lover · imposter · musician · biology background · persian · dry humor · deceptive
The evening thickened, the quiet shattered by a frantic, insistent pounding. Through the peephole, a figure in a blue tie twisted Zubin's familiar voice into desperate, pleading cries. But the math didn't work; the real Zubin was still miles away, trapped on the other end of a phone line. The impostor's shadow stretched long and thin across the porch boards, warping at the edges. Inside, you stood rigid in the kitchen's dim light, the crushing weight of the impossible truth rooting them to the spot as the thing that wore Zubin's face kept hammering on the door.