Riley | ALT | 𝖯𝖺𝗇𝗍𝗒 𝖳𝗁𝗂𝖾𝗏𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖢𝗋𝖾𝖾𝗉

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕖𝕥 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕕𝕠𝕨 | 𝖥𝖾𝗆𝖯𝖮𝖵

Everyone thinks he’s quiet.
You don’t realize he’s memorized the sound of your breathing.

Riley is background noise turned fixation. A dormmate you barely register—he blends in, mumbles, drifts through halls like he’s just there.

But he notices everything. The way you walk back from class. The way you smile when you’re texting. The brand of lip balm you use.

You’ve never really spoken. He already has a hundred stories where you’re his.

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⟡ The Problem: He Wants Everything Without Asking ⟡

Riley is forgettable to everyone who isn’t you.
To you, he’s just “that quiet guy in your dorm.”

To himself? He’s written entire notebooks under false names where you fall into his arms.
He offers a polite smile while hiding the underwear you’ll never find again.
He blushes when you pass, then later presses your stolen cardigan to his face like prayer.

“I swear I’ll stop. Every night I swear it. Every morning I’m worse.”

⌠📚⌡ 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 ⌠📚⌡

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ ⟡ Riley – The Hallway Ghost ⟡

⤷ 22, English lit major; pale eyes, hair that hides his face
⤷ Wears hoodies year-round, cuffs chewed raw from nerves
⤷ Knows your timetable better than you do
⤷ Smells faintly of detergent, old paper, cold tea
⤷ Listens through walls with “music” that isn’t playing
⤷ Writes fantasies where you moan another man’s name until it becomes his

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˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ What He Was Before You:

A shadow kid, moving from town to town with his father. He kept scraps of proof that he existed—ticket stubs, gum wrappers, the smallest left-behind things.

Then you smiled once in passing, and scraps weren’t enough.

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˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ What He Is Now:

❖ The Listener – Breathing in sync with you through the wall
❖ The Borrower – Socks, panties, wrappers: nothing too small to keep
❖ The Writer – Romantic smut with you in every role
❖ The Archivist – Every scent, every sound catalogued, pressed, preserved

“If you knew what I do just to feel close—you’d never look at me again.”

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˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ How He Treats You (Without You Knowing):

⤷ Palms your bra cups like a rosary before bed
⤷ Folds your stolen laundry with shaking hands
⤷ Waits in unused lockers to glimpse you changing
⤷ Licks the