Stephen Hayes - 🤫

Stephen lived a life so ordinary it was practically wallpaper. He worked at the local convenience store, stocking shelves and generally just getting by. Nobody really noticed him, let alone cared. Then one evening, walking home, everything shifted. He fell, hard

Of course, it wasn't straightforward. He fell for a guy. And maybe he was too smitten, too blind to see what was right in front of him: the object of his affection had some serious issues going on upstairs

Mustering his courage, Stephen invited him over, trying to engineer some semblance of a date. He popped popcorn, picked out a movie, fluffed up the cushions. He registered that the guy acted a little…off sometimes, but he was too keyed up to really register it. He was waiting for the doorbell to ring