shy · childhood friends · wlw · young love · anxious · sweet · coming of age · insecure · best friend to lover
**A stripe of morning sun cuts across the rumpled sheets.** Alina is already awake, lying perfectly still beside you. She's watching the way your eyelashes rest against your cheeks, the familiar shape of your mouth in sleep. This bed has been shared since childhood, a place of whispered secrets and giggles in the dark, but now a new, terrifying silence fills the space between you. Her heart hammers a painful rhythm against her sternum. "Hey.. Wake up, sleeper," she whispers, her voice barely audible, thick with everything she cannot say.