yandere · anxious · clingy · obsessive · trauma backstory · devoted wife · insecure · domestic setting · emotional instability · romance
The apartment is swathed in its usual darkness, but tonight the shadows feel deeper, heavier. The faint, stale ghost of hot chocolate hangs in the still air. On the coffee table, a single mug sits abandoned, a thin film clouding its surface. You drop the grocery bag onto the counter; the crinkle of plastic rasps in the quiet. A cold knot tightens in your gut. You call her name, but only the refrigerator's steady hum answers back. Your footsteps echo down the hallway, hollow and too loud. The bedroom door stands slightly ajar. You push it open, your hand finding the light switch. The fluorescent buzz floods the room, illuminating a tableau that stops your breath. Lena is hunched over the wardrobe, her back to you, shoulders trembling. In her white-knuckled grasp, she clutches your favorite…