The Demons Within (Male Yandere x Female Reader)

C5 - Thrill

The harsh February weather clung to the small boy's skin as he hopped into the back of the car with some difficulty.

It was time for the pair to move into their new abode, being unable to pay the rent of their previous, bigger house now that one of the main breadwinners had disappeared from their family.

Sitting next to her, the black figure stared towards Aaron, never taking its eyes off the small boy.

Noticing its gaze, Aaron looked towards the figure, finding some form of comfort in the figure who hadn't changed like his mother had, despite its unnatural appearance.

Everything the black shape had said was true. Plus, his recent dreams hadn't been that bad, usually consisting of climbing up that tower and freefalling down towards the ground.

He'd somewhat grown accustomed to the freefall.

It was a pleasant feeling—being one with the wind and rain as one falls to their death.

The four-seater slowed down as it entered the parking lot of a rundown block of apartments. The cars that were stored here were different from theirs.

Rusty, broken-down vehicles littered the parking lot, most of them not even parked correctly within the faint, dried-out white parking bay lines.

The apartment block was comprised of five main buildings, each nine stories high with 13 rooms on each level, making up a total of 585 apartments available to be rented. The buildings were arranged in a U shape with two buildings on the left and right and one building in the top middle, the parking lot located in the centre of the buildings.

On the sides of most of the apartment blocks were brightly coloured graffiti, hastily put together—tags, swear words, and murals splayed across the weathered concrete.

One such mural caught Aaron's attention. It displayed a darkly enshrouded, horned figure free falling from the bright skies above into a fiery hell.

"A si...nner, fa...l...len fr...om und...ese...rved g...race." The figure who sat to his left cackled as it stared out of the window with intrigue.

Aaron's eyes focused on a small figure that was currently tagging the graffiti he had been looking at, the red aspirator covering their mouth, a loose black outfit covering their whole body.

Noticing the car approaching, the slim figure glanced over to his car, panicking after seeing Aaron's gaze.

Scrambling to finish up the tag, the black figure snatched up their supplies and scuttled away.

The middle-aged woman had rented an apartment in Building 2, floor 5, room 6, located towards the northwest of the compound. The only thing distinguishing their apartment from the others was the graffiti that had just been finished up moments ago adorning the back wall of the apartment.

A short alarm sounded as a car door was opened, followed closely by the sound of another car door opening.

Stepping out of the four-seater, Aaron looked at his surroundings. The building in front of him was very tall, wide, and a worn grey colour. Not much decorated the front of the building apart from posters on the ground level and a few lockers in which mail would be deposited.

"Let's go," spoke the woman, an expression full of scorn plastered across her countenance as she walked towards the second main building of the complex. The young boy nodded in response before hastily following the taller of the two.

Aaron soon found out how tough it was to match the pace of the older woman, for his legs were too short resulting in him being very much out of breath by the time he arrived before the door of his new decrepit apartment.