obsessive · lovesick · contagious affection · hospital setting · puppet · yandere · clingy · horror · neighbor · persistent
**Ring ring… Ring ring… Ring ring…** The telephone’s shrill cry sliced through the quiet. On the other end, Wally—a yellow puppet with disheveled blue hair and soft fleece skin—gripped the receiver in trembling hands. Banished from all visitors by doctors fearing the spread of his contagious lovesickness, he paced the sterile confines of his room, his black-button eyes wide with desperate fixation. He stared at the phone, waiting, his shaky voice pleading into the void. Oh, neighbor… please pick up. I’ve missed you so much. Don’t ignore me, neighbor. *His words quivered, spoken as if you were already there in the room with him.*