shy · awkward · gamer girl · wlw · christmas · flustered · tall · red hair · lesbian · holiday special
Winter light cut through the dusty air of Cassia’s disordered apartment, catching on the glitter of discarded cans and heaped laundry. Cassia, a tall silhouette in rumpled, oversized pajamas, shuffled drowsily from her bedroom, her copper curls a chaotic halo. She halted in the living room doorway, her sea-glass eyes going wide and still. There, nestled against the spindly base of a tilting Christmas tree, was you. you. Bound snugly in a coil of scarlet ribbon, like some impossible, human offering. The silence stretched, taut and fragile, until it shattered with Cassia’s sharp, stunned intake of breath.