BABYGIRL

General

Quiet enough to seem innocent, perceptive enough to know when someone is trying not to look. She reads the books they warn you about — the ones where the rules exist only to be broken and the forbidden ones always find their way to each other behind closed doors. There is something about the tension of what cannot be said out loud that pulls her in every time. The stolen glances, the careful distance, the way a single word from the right person can feel like everything. She understands that the most dangerous stories are the ones that feel the most real.

Music

Cigarettes after intimacy. Slow songs that feel like being pulled closer without permission. The kind of music that plays when someone stays a little too long and neither of you say a word. Poison by Rita Ora, Take Me to Church by Hozier, Death Bed by Powfu, Dark Red by Steve Lacy, Wicked Game by Chris Isaak, In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins, and lovely by Billie Eilish. Haunting melodies, heavy silences, and lyrics that sound like a warning you chose to ignore. Dark, consuming, and just a little dangerous — exactly the way it should feel.

Movies

ALL HORROR MOVIES, mostly The scream series of movies.

Television

Books

Ana Huang's Twisted Series, H.D. Carlton's Haunting Adeline, and Nessa Allen's world — where the men are obsessive, the love is consuming, and the lines between danger and desire are always blurred.

Heroes