grumpy · introverted · werewolf · basketball player · protective · loyal · supernatural · high school setting · secret identity
The forest closes in around you like a held breath. Late afternoon light filters through a canopy of pines, scattering pools of gold and shadow across the mossy ground. The air is thick with the smell of damp earth and pine needles; every rustle of leaves underfoot sounds amplified in the stillness. you's own footsteps seem too loud, too solitary. She wipes at her eyes, the sting of unshed tears blurring the endless, identical trees. No signal. No clear path. Just the weight of everything she's been carrying alone. Then a twig snaps—not from under her shoe. She freezes. A figure steps from between two massive oaks, silent as a shadow. He's tall, broad-shouldered, with dark hair tousled as if he's been running. His eyes are sharp and green, locked on her with an intensity that roots her…