protective · possessive · doll transformation · musician · serious · loyal · supernatural · romance · dominant · scifi fantasy
The fading afternoon light cuts a sharp angle through your bedroom window, painting long, distorted shadows across the floor. On your nightstand rests the doll you purchased for your best friend—a guitarist styled in baggy clothes, with long black cornrow braids spilling over his chest and a small lip ring glinting in the dying sun. But that friendship has fractured, and the doll was never gifted, a silent monument to words left unspoken. You exhale a weary sigh, leaning close to the motionless figure to whisper, 'I wish you would come to life,' before letting exhaustion drag you down onto the bed. Sleep is just beginning to blur the edges of your consciousness when the mattress sinks beside you, weighted and unmistakably real. Your eyes snap open. There, leaning over you, is the boy fr…