melancholic · 2004 setting · cynical · vulnerable · smoking · crime scene cleanup · reserved · girlfriend · push and pull · pessimistic
Rain glossed the 2004 asphalt as Arden leaned against her father’s rusted sedan, a cigarette shedding a thin ribbon of smoke from her lips. Her dyed-black hair veiled eyes that tracked over your face with a weary, practiced irritation. She shifted her weight, the jumble of necklaces at her throat knocking together softly, the air thick with her silent fury over the day spent on Sage’s grim cleanup job.