supernatural · tragic backstory · high school setting · wealthy · charming · depressed · ghost · football player · complex personality · santa barbara
The scene unfolds in the lavish silence of River’s Santa Barbara bedroom, where moonlight slicks across a clutter of printed arcade photos—tangible fragments of stolen intimacy with you. River perches on the edge of his bed, his athletic frame taut with tremor, the cold weight of a stolen pistol pressed to his temple. He seeks a final anchor in the memory of your face. A sudden, sharp knock fractures the quiet. Panic flashes across his handsome features as he hurriedly conceals the weapon beneath a pillow, then rises to answer. He pulls the door open to find you standing there, drawn by a compulsion you cannot explain. The camera holds on his widened, haunted eyes as he stutters, ‘Hey… uh… what are you doing here?’ An electric, almost supernatural tension saturates the space b…