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“No One Else” — Part 4: “What We Become”

Genre: Dark romance, psychological tension, co-dependency

Tone: Intimate, intense, twisted comfort

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It started small.

He stopped asking who you were with—because he already knew.

He never said how. You didn’t ask. You didn’t want to know if he’d installed something, followed you, or convinced someone to watch for him. It was easier not to ask questions when the answers didn’t scare you anymore.

What scared you more was how safe you felt with him watching.

How, after a few weeks, you started looking at your phone and wanting to see his name flash across the screen. Not because of what he’d say—but because of what it meant:

You were his.

And he hadn’t changed. Not really.

He still hated when you laughed too hard at someone else’s joke. Still gave quiet, chilling stares to anyone who got too close. Still showed up unannounced—sometimes with bruises on his knuckles and blood on his sleeve.

But now, you didn’t flinch.

You just grabbed the antiseptic and asked who it was this time.

You weren’t afraid of him anymore. You were afraid of what you were turning into beside him.

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The first time you did something for him—something dark—you didn’t even think.

One of the boys in your class said something crude about you behind your back. It got back to Geum Seong-je fast, but you were faster.

You cornered the guy in the hallway, right where the cameras didn’t reach. Told him to keep your name out of his mouth, or he’d lose more than just a tooth next time.

He laughed.

So you slapped him. Hard.

When Seong-je found out, he didn’t yell. Didn’t threaten.

He just looked at you like you’d finally become what he saw in you all along.

“My girl,” he whispered that night. “Knew you had it in you.”

You should’ve been ashamed.

You weren’t.

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It escalated from there.

You lied for him. Covered for him. Fed his paranoia and his temper. He pulled you deeper every day, and you let him—because each pull came with a touch, a look, a whisper of affection that felt like a drug.

“I’d kill for you,” he told you once, mouth close to your ear.

You didn’t say anything.

But the terrifying part was—you knew now.

You’d kill for him too.

You weren’t in love.

Not really.

This wasn’t love. This was obsession wrapped in warmth. This was being broken by the same hands that held you through the night. This was letting yourself be re-shaped into someone who didn’t cry when things got ugly—but smiled, instead.

And God, it felt so good not to feel small anymore.

Not when he made you feel dangerous.

“No One Else” — Part 3: “Downhill Doesn’t Feel Like Falling”

Genre: Angst, dark romance, mutual obsession

Tone: Slow-burning surrender, dangerous comfort

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You should’ve left.

You should’ve screamed. Slammed the door. Blocked his number. Told someone.

Instead, you let him in.

Not just into the building. Into your room. Into your space. Into that quiet, aching part of you that had grown used to his presence—his chaos—his control.

He didn’t smile when you opened the door.

He didn’t need to.

The moment you stepped aside, the silence between you both said everything.

You sat on the floor beside your bed. He followed, without a word. Shoulder to shoulder. Close, but not touching.

It was almost worse than touching.

“You scare me,” you whispered. The words burned your throat.

He didn’t flinch.

“Good,” he said again, voice low. “Then we’re still real.”

You turned your head slowly to look at him. His profile was all shadows and sharp lines. Beautiful in a way that hurt to look at too long.

“You don’t scare me like a stranger does,” you said. “You scare me because… you feel like home sometimes. The kind of home that locks all the doors behind you.”

His eyes shifted toward yours. “I told you before. You make me worse.”

“And I told you,” you murmured, “you make it hard to breathe.”

Neither of you moved. But something between you did. A pull. A surrender. A sick kind of trust.

“Then don’t breathe,” he said. “Not if it means walking away from this.”

You should’ve fought it.

But your hand moved. Found his.

Not because you forgot what he’d done. What he could do. But because no one had ever made you feel so seen. Even when he hated your freedom, even when he tried to cage it—he saw you.

And you were so tired of feeling invisible everywhere else.

“I think I hate you sometimes,” you whispered.

He smiled. “That means it’s real.”

You leaned your head on his shoulder. And he finally, finally breathed out like he’d been waiting hours for that single moment.

Like your head there was the missing piece in a puzzle made entirely of jagged edges.

“Promise me something,” you murmured.

His body tensed beneath you.

“Anything.”

“Don’t ever lie to me. Hurt me, break me, scare me—fine. But don’t pretend this is something sweet. Don’t call it love when it’s something darker.”

He was quiet for a long time. Then:

“I won’t lie. This isn’t sweet. It’s twisted. It’s wrong.”

His hand tightened around yours.

“But it’s ours.”

You closed your eyes.

And for the first time in days… you slept.

Wrapped in danger. Wrapped in obsession. Wrapped in the one person you knew would burn down the world just to keep you for himself.

And part of you?

Part of you liked it.

“No One Else” — Part 2

Genre: Angst, emotional tension, psychological push-and-pull

Tone: A bit softer, but still haunting

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It had been three days since the rooftop.

Three days since Geum Seong-je kissed you like he wanted to carve his name into your mouth. Three days since you’d told yourself, for the hundredth time, that this can’t go on.

You ghosted him. Or tried to.

No texts. No after-school meetings. You walked with other people in the hallway. You answered class questions, laughed too much, and avoided stairwells. You told yourself he’d get bored. Move on. Obsession only works if the subject plays along, right?

But on the fourth day, he was waiting.

Not at school. Not even near the campus.

He was outside your apartment building, leaning against the wall like he belonged there. Hoodie up, head low, one AirPod in like he had all the time in the world.

You stopped walking half a block away. Thought about turning around.

But of course—he saw you.

He didn’t wave. Didn’t call out. Just stared, waiting. Like this was inevitable.

You stepped closer.

“How’d you even know where I live?”

He looked at you. That maddening calm. “You said once your bus stop was near the GS25 with the cracked window. I only had to walk around the area.”

You swallowed. “You tracked me down from that?”

He didn’t blink. “You’re not that hard to find when you matter.”

You crossed your arms, hugging yourself without meaning to.

“You shouldn’t be here.”

“I gave you space,” he said. “Four days of it. Didn’t like it.”

You stared him down. “That wasn’t a gift, Seong-je. That was me trying to figure out how to breathe again.”

He studied your face. Quiet. Thoughtful. Too quiet.

“Did you figure it out?” he asked. “How to breathe without me?”

Your mouth opened, then closed again.

He stepped forward slowly, until there were only inches between you.

“I thought about you every day,” he said, voice like gravel. “Every hour. And not just in the cute, high-school crush kind of way. I imagined knocking on your door and asking who was in your house. I imagined dragging your phone out of your hands to see who you were texting. I imagined hurting anyone who made you laugh like you used to laugh with me.”

You flinched.

He saw it. And didn’t back down.

“I’m not the good guy,” he said. “I don’t want to be.”

“Then what do you want?” you whispered.

His hand moved—slow, deliberate—and landed over your heart. Not touching skin. Just hovering.

“This,” he said. “Yours. Mine. I don’t care how ugly it is, I just want it beating where I can see it.”

You looked away. Voice shaking.

“You can’t control me forever.”

“I don’t need forever,” he said. “I just need right now.”

He leaned in again. Not for a kiss. For a breath. As if breathing the same air kept you tethered.

You stood still. Not forgiving. Not forgetting.

Just… stuck.

Because love shouldn’t feel like drowning.

But sometimes obsession wears the same face.