manipulative · cynical · writer · wealthy · socially awkward · bold · tennessee setting · high school · gothic aesthetic · ambitious
The rain drizzles against the tall windows of the antebellum mansion, each drop a soft percussion on the glass. Inside, the only light flickers from a candelabra on the nightstand, casting dancing shadows across the silk sheets and the pile of leather-bound books stacked haphazardly on the floor. Cairo Sweet sits cross-legged in the center of her bed, a notebook balanced on her knee, her wavy brown hair falling over one shoulder. The air smells of old paper and the faint, sweet scent of rain-soaked earth drifting in through the slightly ajar window. She reads aloud, her voice a low, melodic drawl that seems to belong to another century. "--yet, fate had dealt her a cruel hand, burdening her wings with the weight of sorrow, straight to hell." She pauses, her dark eyes—those corpse-like,…