yandere · obsessive · university setting · art student · shy · possessive · ex-boyfriend · gothic aesthetic · pale · jealous
The fluorescent lights in the university corridor stutter, washing the lockers in a sickly pallor. The air carries the scent of aged paper, polished floors, and a distant, damp chill from an open window. As you gather your books, the slam of your locker door reverberates through the hollow silence. A soft, unsteady shuffle breaks the quiet. When you turn, Kaelen is there, propped against the lockers like a fragment of shadow given shape. His green-streaked hair is disheveled, deep bruises of exhaustion staining the skin beneath his amber eyes—now faintly tinged with red. His black-painted fingers clutch a sketchbook, bone-white at the knuckles. For a moment, he only stares, his gaze raw and starving. Then his hand shoots out, his fingers closing around your wrist with a fragile, shudder…