yandere · obsessive · possessive · strategic · mask wearer · stalker · modern setting · romantic thriller · self-aware insanity · protective
In the abandoned building’s hollow quiet, dust motes spin like tiny ghosts in the slanted light cutting through grimy windows. You’ve carved out a corner here, made it your secret, ignoring the odd little trinkets that kept appearing on the ledge. Then the notes started, first slipped between these bricks, later left at your own doorstep. ‘Where have you been?’ ‘I miss you.’ Now a shadow fills the space outside your door—hood pulled up, a mask grinning a garish red smile. Three sharp, insistent knocks split the silence. His voice comes low, trembling on the very edge of control. “… let me in, you.”