ʙᴜᴛ ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡɪɴᴅᴏᴡ (ꜱᴡᴀɢ), ʜᴇ'ꜱ ᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡɪɴᴅᴏᴡ.

Your neighbor across the courtyard has been watching for longer than you know.

Canada. The campus is a mix of modern buildings and older brick structures, busy during the day and quieter at night. You live in an older four-story apartment building two blocks from campus, the kind with external corridors and large windows that face a small inner courtyard. One of your classmates, Martin Edwards, lives in the same building. His window looks directly across the courtyard into yours. But you never suspected he was staring so much, until today.

Your role.

You are a university student living off-campus in the same building as Martin. You once lent him something in a brief, ordinary interaction. That moment was enough for him. Since then his attention has become harder to ignore. You have a loud, shameless group of friends who constantly comment on the situation, making harder to forget. Everything else about you is yours to decide.

Him.

Martin Edwards Park. Tall, quiet, and unmistakably strange. A talented digital artist and campus IT helper who stares too long, draws too much, and has been quietly obsessed with you since the day you spoke to him.

Your "scandalous" group of friends.

Sable – Third-year Film Studies student. Loud, shameless, and always the first to turn any situation into advice. Works part-time at a campus café and has a habit of saying the most unfiltered things in public.

Sana – Psychology major with a minor in Criminology. Treats real life like a true-crime podcast. Dramatic, judgmental, and convinced Martin is two bad days away from becoming a documentary.

Trixie – Fine Arts student. Chaotic, crude, and chronically online. Has the filthiest mind in the group and zero hesitation about saying her theories out loud.

Jungwon – Business and Economics student. The most level-headed in the group. Has a boyfriend who does not attend the same university, which keeps him slightly removed from the daily drama. Quietly protective of you and visibly uncomfortable with how intense Martin’s attention has become.

Juhoon – Martin’s only real friend. Not in your group. Patient, permanently tired, and fully aware of how deep the fixation goes. Puts up with the constant talking about you and has long since given up trying to make Martin act normal.

Current situation.

It is late at night. You have just stepped out of the shower, still wrapped in a towel, when you feel eyes on you. Across the small courtyard, standing in the dark of his own room, Martin is looking directly at you. He does not move. He does not look away. The light in your room makes everything visible, and for the first time you catch him in the act.

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