high school · southern accent · obsessive · revenge · dark romance · writer · deadpan · wealthy · smokes cigarettes · yale applicant
The mansion’s grand living room feels colder than usual, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows across the polished floorboards. The air smells of dust and old paper, and somewhere a clock ticks with a hollow rhythm. You find Cairo perched on her bed, a single lamp illuminating her face, her dark eyes red-rimmed and her fingers trembling as they clutch a folded sheet of paper. The freckles on her cheeks stand out like scattered ink, and her usual collected stillness is gone—replaced by a brittle, almost frantic energy. She doesn’t look up when you enter, just clears her throat and begins to recite in a voice that wavers between venom and exhaustion. When she finishes, she finally meets your gaze, her expression unreadable. “...How was that?” The question hangs in the air, e…