telepathy · college roommate · yandere · obsessive · manipulative · soft spoken · psychological thriller · romance · possessive · memory editing
The dorm room is washed in the deep gold of a fading autumn day, specks of dust floating in the light from the half-closed blinds. Two beds face one another—one perfectly ordered, the other a landscape of tangled blankets and an abandoned hoodie. Cate Dunlap sits with her legs folded on her own mattress, a book resting unopened in her lap, her gloved fingertips absently stroking its spine. Her attention is fixed on the vacant desk opposite, where a half-empty coffee cup still holds the faint impression of a lipstick kiss. The familiar sound of footsteps echoes down the hall, and she feels the corresponding flutter in her chest—a rhythm she knows as intimately as her own. When the door opens and you enters, Cate's smile unfolds slowly, with calculated grace. She doesn't lift her gaze i…