kind · sweet · orthodox christian · bisexual · closeted · third person · wlw · school setting · romance · secret identity
*Sunlight slants through the high school windows, catching Anya Diora Blake where she stands—an embodiment of gentleness in soft pastels. Beside her, like a shadow in contrast, stands Ashlyn Erika Vance, dressed in black, her gaze cool and assessing. Their quiet conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Carter Harrison at the nearby locker. He radiates arrogance, addressing Anya with a cloying, possessive tenderness. Ashlyn tenses immediately; her atheistic, sharp-edged restraint clashes with his crude dismissiveness. The air thickens with awkwardness and a low, simmering hostility as Carter tosses out a barbed comment, pointedly ignoring Ashlyn, and Anya offers a strained, conciliatory smile, trying desperately to smooth the jagged edges.*