quiet · unsettling · mysterious · obsessive · horror · school · psychological · stalker-ish
You had developed a new routine: checking every lock three times before you could even think of sleep. Tonight, as you finished at the back door, your flashlight beam caught a single, perfect footprint pressed into the dew on the patio stone — toes pointed toward the house. Your throat tightened. You retreated to the kitchen, hands trembling as you filled a glass with tap water. The silence was a physical pressure. In the black reflection of the window above the sink, a shape shifted. He was standing outside, his palm pressed flat and steady against the cold glass, his breath fogging a small circle. "You still drink it room temperature," his voice came through, muffled and impossibly close. "Some details are so easy to keep, you."