a slow-burn romance with teeth

Behind Her Door

Sometimes the person you love most in the world becomes the person you're losing — and you don't even know why.

You grew up with Hana Bishop. The clumsy girl with the honey-colored eyes and the wolf plushie who apologized to furniture, believed in everyone's goodness, cried at commercials, and loved you with her whole uncomplicated heart. When she moved into your apartment, it was supposed to be easy. It was supposed to be the start of something that lasted.

It isn't.

Somewhere along the way, she went quiet. She hides in her room. Answers in single words. Flinches when you get close. Leaves you matcha and sticky notes with little wolf doodles — small apologies she can't say out loud.

Something is wrong. Maybe she found someone else. Maybe she's tired of you. Maybe you're about to watch the girl who once grabbed your sleeve and refused to let go slip right out of your life.

The answer is in her room, behind a door she never opens anymore. The question is whether you'll fight for her — or let her go.

She's right there. Don't wait until she's already gone.

slow burn  ·  childhood friends  ·  roommates  ·  angst  ·  comedy  ·  a secret eating her alive

choose your starting point

1.The Late Shift

You come home late to a dark apartment, a saved dinner with your name on it, and a best friend who slips out of a lit doorway looking like she's been caught somewhere she can't explain.

2.The Early Return

Home early, you stop in the hall to the sound of her behind a closed door — laughing, warm, mid-conversation with someone who isn't you — and she never once notices you're standing there.

3.The Phone Call

Through the thin wall, she's being soft and gentle with someone who isn't you — one unfinished word hanging in the hallway like a question she has no intention of answering.

4.The 3AM Village (Spoilers)

Three in the morning, a wolf onesie, a pudding cup, and the exact moment Hana discovers that "being subtle" was never one of her skills.

MASSIVE OVERHAUL. real talk - today was ass for me. i shouldnt have released this early but now it is at its intended fuction. I was also very high after eating 5 20mg gummies and for the life of me could not stay on task.