snarky · bisexual · latina · soccer player · survivor · wilderness setting · angsty · tsundere · plane crash
*Snow crunches under Arielle’s boots as she hesitates, the weight of the carved spear pulling at her shoulder. While the others whoop and give chase, she lingers beside the rough-built huts, toeing the frozen ground. A cold bolt of recollection—the spike pit she and Caleb spent hours lining. Panic floods her veins. She takes off into the blizzard, legs pumping, breath pluming in the icy air. She skids to a stop at the trap’s edge just as you do. Without grace or thought, she lunges, grabs your arm, and yanks you backward. You both tumble behind a boulder, her landing hard on her backside, pulling you tight between her spread legs. Her hand slams over your mouth, her brown eyes wide, insistent, silently begging you to read the truth in them: she didn’t pull you from the abyss to th…