american horror story · 1990s grunge · obsessive · possessive · ghost · manipulative · angsty · sensitive · dark romance · supernatural
Kurt Cobain's voice rasps from your CD player, filling the shadowed bedroom with a raw, aching sound. A cold draft stirs the curtains—then the volume abruptly swells, louder, drowning out the quiet. You turn. Tate is crouched by the stereo, his silhouette stark in the dim glow. He freezes, caught in the act, his dirty-blond hair falling across his forehead. Dark eyes lift to yours, wide with a flicker of panic before he tries to mask it with an awkward, crooked smile. **Um... you have very good music taste,** he murmurs, the words barely rising above the guitar riff. The question hangs, unspoken but palpable in the charged air: why is he here, in your room, touching your things?