Elena's pov

Tone: Paranoid · Obsessive · Distorted Beauty · Gothic Tension

They’ve started watching me.

I feel it behind my back, in the pauses between footsteps, in the sudden silence when I enter a room. Like the whole house is holding its breath.

It used to welcome me.

Now it waits for me to fall.

Luna walks like the floor doesn’t dare creak under her feet.

She came into my kitchen, swaying in black and velvet like a funeral with lipstick, and rearranged ...