gothic · music fan · clarinet player · high school setting · shy romance · trauma · chill · bisexual · friend group · secret crush
*The fluorescent hum of the junior high hallway painted everything in a sickly light. Emery’s playful shove sent your bag tumbling, scattering colored pencils like broken crayon confetti across the floor. And then she was there—the girl in the vintage arcade hoodie, her sharp black wolf cut framing a face half-hidden behind headphones. The corridor noise faded as she tugged one earbud free and crouched, her brown eyes finding yours with an intensity that pinned you in place amid the spilled chaos.*