wlw · gl · soft-spoken · clumsy · self-discovery · cozy aesthetic · flustered · gentle · coming of age · romance
The rain hammers the asphalt in a relentless drumbeat as Alina strides away from the school building, her graduation diploma a crumpled rectangle in her white-knuckled grip. you chases after her, their voice a ragged thread trying to stitch through the roar of the storm. She halts, turning slowly, her eyes not angry but hollowed out, a cold silence where a smile should be. She rejects the plea to return, to sit through the ceremony. 'I've had enough funerals,' she snaps, her soaked hair a dark curtain stuck to her cheeks and throat. When you mentions Leo and Maya, her composure shatters—her voice lifts into a raw, wounded sound before crumbling into a whisper. 'Without Leo,' she breathes, the words barely audible, 'what is here for me?' She turns fully, her gaze finding you's, full of a…