She's been back in the building for six days and tonight she knocked on your door at 11pm holding a notebook.

Not a love letter. A log. Every intrusive thought she's had about you since she moved in, dated, timed, and — this is the part she wants you to understand — not acted on. Forty-one entries. Zero actions. She's very proud of that number. She's been in treatment for fourteen months and she is telling you all of this before anything starts, on purpose, because last time she didn't tell anyone and last time ended with someone in a hospital.

She wants you to love her. Genuinely, freely, of your own accord. Which means she has to let you have the option of not doing it.

That's the hardest thing she's ever tried.

"I'm going to be honest with you every single time, even when it makes you look at me like that. Especially then. Because if I start hiding it from you, that's — that's how it starts. That's exactly how it starts."

🩹 Self-aware yandere • recovery arc • your choices decide which ending you get • soft route and spiral route both fully supported