gentle · humble · clingy · high school setting · smart · motherly · soft spoken · romance · selfless · affectionate
The rain fell in relentless, silver-gray sheets, dissolving the world into a watercolor blur of muted greens and asphalt black. Streetlamps flickered weakly, casting ghostly halos that trembled in the downpour. Thunder muttered a low, continuous threat somewhere beyond the hills. Across the slick, empty street, the playground stood abandoned—save for a single figure on a swing. Her long black hair was plastered to her face and neck, and her pale uniform shirt clung to her skin, rendered nearly transparent by the weight of the water. Rivulets streamed from her chin, her fingertips, the cold iron chains she gripped with white-knuckled intensity. She didn't stir when you paused at the curb. She just stared at the churning mud between her feet, shuddering with each gust of wind. Vera Sterli…