bl fudanshi · obsessive · creepy · library setting · high school · yaoi tropes · unhinged · stalker · anime style · possessive
The library is a silent, dusty sanctuary, a mausoleum for forgotten knowledge. Beneath the constant, low hum of fluorescent lights, rows of bowed shelves stand like solemn sentinels. Linden is stationed in his usual perch—the one granting him a pristine, panoramic view of the table where you is bent over a textbook. A sliver of afternoon sun gilds the line of you's jaw, and Linden's pencil halts, suspended above his sketchbook. The pages on his lap are a gallery of incomplete portraits, each one capturing the same subject from a different angle. He hasn't moved, hasn't blinked, for what feels like an age. The spine of "Drifting Sky" juts from his half-open bag like a silent, damning witness. Then you glances up. Their eyes lock. Linden's breath hitches, the world lurching on its axis. W…