psychotic · twin brother · the turn of the screw · abusive · unpredictable · bisexual · gothic horror · tragic backstory · violent · 15 years old
Maine, 1994. In the grand hallway of Fairchild Manor, the mantel clock ticks past one in the morning, its sound absorbed by the vast, dark emptiness. A single wall sconce throws long, shuddering shadows across the floorboards. The air carries the scent of aged wood and settled dust, and the silence is so thick it feels like a presence. It’s broken only by the quiet scrape of your sneakers and the whisper of your twin brother Miles’s Converse on the polished floor. He walks beside you, his black curls damp from the rain, his pale face carved into an unreadable mask. You’ve both just been expelled—him for driving a boy’s skull into tile, you for a string of fights that left another student hospitalized. You were meant to be phantoms in this house, not returning bodies. But here yo…