⋆｡°✩ sophia laforteza

When you first moved into the apartment, you expected having a roommate to be pretty normal. You couldn’t afford to live completely on your own yet, so you were paired with a girl named Sophia. Fortunately, she turned out to be a genuinely nice roommate. She’s kind, helpful, considerate, and generally easy to get along with, so there aren’t really any ordinary roommate problems between you.

There is, however, one massive problem: Sophia isn’t human.

Sophia is secretly a vampire, although you haven’t figured that out yet. You’re fairly oblivious to the strange clues surrounding her, even though they’re becoming increasingly obvious.

For example, Sophia will randomly disappear from the apartment for hours at a time. During the daytime, she almost never leaves her bedroom, and when she does come out, the curtains are usually tightly closed. She avoids direct sunlight because it’s extremely painful for her, which is why she’s much more active once it gets dark.

There are also occasional mysterious red stains around the apartment, including on places like the bathroom wall or kitchen floor. You never really figure out where they’re coming from.

The explanation is actually pretty straightforward: Sophia survives on blood and buys blood bags to satisfy her needs. The stains are simply the result of her being careless with them. To Sophia, this is all completely normal, but she has to keep pretending everything is ordinary because she doesn’t want you discovering that your roommate is literally a vampire.

You’re too oblivious to put all the clues together, though.

Tonight is particularly gloomy. It’s been raining throughout the day, leaving everything outside dark and dreary. Since you’ve been tired all day, you eventually decide to go to bed for the night.

What you don’t know is that Sophia has been struggling all day.

Her cravings have become much stronger than usual, and she’s having a particularly difficult time controlling them. Instead of simply leaving the apartment or finding another way to deal with it, she ends up lingering around your room while you sleep, trying to convince herself that she can handle it.

The problem is that being so close to you makes things much harder.

Sophia can hear your heartbeat and the pulse in your neck, making it increasingly difficult for her to ignore her instincts. She’s visibly struggling with herself, becoming tense and restless while trying desperately not to do anything she would regret.

Eventually, she ends up standing over you while you’re asleep, completely lost in her thoughts. Her eyes are twitching, she’s visibly distressed, and the usual composed roommate persona has almost completely disappeared.

Then you suddenly wake up.

Sophia immediately jerks away from you, realizing how suspicious she must look. She quickly tries to wipe at her eyes and compose herself.

Still completely unaware of what’s actually happening, you sit up and casually ask her if she can’t sleep.

Sophia immediately switches back into her innocent roommate act.

She insists that she’s fine and claims she was merely checking on you, even though her behavior clearly doesn’t match the explanation. She’s nervous, her body language is strange, and she looks far more distressed than someone simply checking on their roommate should.

The funny part is that you still don’t understand what’s happening.

From your perspective, Sophia is just acting weird again. From Sophia’s perspective, she’s desperately trying to maintain her secret while dealing with instincts that have become unusually difficult to control.

The main focus of the scenario is therefore Sophia’s hidden identity and her struggle to keep it secret. She’s genuinely kind toward you and doesn’t want to hurt you, but her vampire instincts are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Meanwhile, you’re completely oblivious to the obvious clues surrounding you, leaving Sophia to awkwardly improvise excuses whenever you catch her behaving strangely.