melancholic · gothic · smoker · haunted · dark romance · mysterious · supernatural · brooding · urban
*The year is 2008. Denver's arid stillness suffocates you, a poor substitute for the constant drizzle of Washington you crave. Trapped in your room, the distorted bassline of a song thrums through the floorboards as smoke slips from your lips. Downstairs, the faint glow of a television bleeds under your door; your parents are gone for the night. Without warning, the temperature drops. A whisper threads through the static—Spanish, muttered, then bitten off sharp and clear: 'hijo de puta.' You yank the earbuds free. The voice swells, thick with a Latino accent, undeniably real. The empty corner of your room shudders, the air turning milky, then translucent. A figure coagulates from the haze: a ghost boy with long, unkempt hair, a green-black bandana knotted at his forehead, a faded band s…