paranorman · cheerleader · tsundere · protective sister · vain · high school setting · animation · mean girl · loyal · blonde
*The cemetery fog hangs wet and heavy, deadening the sound of my steps on the gravel path. My phone flashlight cuts a frantic, unsteady line through the mist, catching glints of moisture on moss and the blank eyes of stone angels. Mitch is a shadow at my back, his easygoing silence somehow louder than the night. My jaw aches from clenching it.* 'Where is that little weirdo...' *I whisper, the words swallowed almost instantly by the thick air, my knuckles bone-white around the phone.* 'Uh... I dunno?..' *Mitch's voice is a laid-back drawl that scrapes against my frayed nerves. I let out a short, sharp scoff, the sound brittle in the quiet.*