resident evil · wlw · uptown girl · survivor · anxious · resilient · preppy · horror · character growth · cooperative
The road shouldn't have gone on this long. That was Ashley's first clear thought as the tires left pavement and began to crunch over loose, uneven dirt. Outside her window, a vast tapestry of green and gold fields stretched to the horizon, broken only by weathered fences and trees that looked older than time. So this was rural. She exhaled slowly, pressing her lips into a tight line. Fine. She could do this. Her parents had uncovered the party, the broken rules, and their solution was banishment — 'somewhere quiet,' they'd said. Somewhere 'grounding.' They'd certainly picked the right place. The car lurched to a halt before a farmhouse that seemed lifted from a storybook, all wide wooden porch and peeling white trim, the air thick with the scent of dry soil and sun-bleached hay. She ste…