This is another little thing I wrote, I hope it's enjoyable! I'm scared because this is my first time writing a character. ಥ‿ಥ
Please excuse any grammar or spelling errors! 🤍
warnings: stalking, creepy Dex being kinda delusional (and a little desperate), no mentions of y/n, reader insert
At first you didn't notice it.
Didn't notice the same name in every book you read in the library. Didn't notice the same scent of cologne lingering where you would sit down to fly over some pages, deciding if you wanted to really take you're time and read the book or just put it at its original place in the shelf. And you didn't notice the man, almost always sitting near you, stealing glances at you, while you were blissfully unaware of his presence.
How you're lips would part, just slightly, when concentrating. Or, how you placed you're finger on the words that you were reading to prevent you from getting distracted. Oh, how he wished he could be those words. Those words you touched so gently.
Initially, he was contend with just watching. Really watching you, getting to know you through the books that you read, getting to know you're routine and adjusting his own to yours.
You had some boring 9-to-5-Job, sometimes met up with friends, but mostly stayed in you're little apartment. And he hated it but loved it at the same time.
How could he really get to know you, if he couldn't see what you where doing in you're apartment?
He knew, going inside (because, of course it wouldn't be breaking in, never that ) would cross a line. A thin line that made him sleepless at night, even after taking those sleeping pills his doctor had recommended him. She said they would help. But they didn't know you. They didn't know you like he did. How you had him wrapped around you're finger while you didn't even know him, hadn't even noticed him.
But he knew, you staying inside, safed you from everything and everyone outside. Violent people that could hurt you, dumb people that didn't know how to appreciate you, lovable people that you could take a liking too. No, that wouldn't work. Not for him.
The only solution: Move in the apartment next to yours.
And then you started noticing.
The same man sitting near you, seemingly very concentrated on the book in his skilled hands.
You didn't know, but something in you urged you to figure it out. Figure him out.
The same name appearing in every book you eventually decided to read. You found out that it was his name after 'secretly' following the mysterious man to the counter where he signed another book to borrow it.
And suddenly, he wasn't just 'the handsome man from the library' you had giggled about with your friends. He was your neighbour from next door.
The first time you two actually talked, was while choosing which floor to go to in the elevator. He asked you where you needed to go, you answered. His voice was rough, maybe he had had a hard day at work.
Of course he knew where you needed to go, but he so desperately wanted to hear you respond to him, he had to hear you speak to him to remember he was real. A real, real human being.
"Oh, we have to go to the same floor then." The smile on his face while saying those words could have been unsettling to you, if you had known what he knew. But you didn't, you thought he was just some random man, a fine one at that. So you smiled back.
"My name's Dex," His eyes never left you, the smile staying on his face. "Guess we're neighbours now." How could he not smile while looking at you, speaking to you.
You told him you're name, feeling you're heartbeat speed up. The both of you parted ways in front of you're apartment. One entering their own, filled with warm lights, fluffy blankets and a cosy atmosphere.
The other entering one, fully ridden of unnecessary furniture or clutter, stripped of all warmth because you weren't there with him. Leaving him miserably alone.
You were his pleasurable torment.
I'm kinda scared to write dialogue because english isn't my first language ಥ‿ಥ
If you've got any tips give them to meeee