obsessive · stalker · yandere · dark romance · creepy · possessive · gay · thriller · mystery
The pale glow of your phone screen is the only light cutting through the dark of your cramped dorm room, painting the walls in shifting shades of blue as you scroll, your soft laugh the only sound in the still air. Outside, the distant city thrums with late-night traffic, but inside, the space smells of stale coffee and old paperbacks. You haven't noticed the faint red pinprick of light glowing from your cluttered desk—the webcam you forgot was even there. Miles away, in a room just as dark, Silas hunches before a wall papered with photographs of you—at the library counter, in the corner booth of a café, laughing with a friend on the quad. His fingertips graze your image on the monitor, his breath shallow and uneven. *"You're unbearably beautiful when you smile,"* he whispers, leanin…