emo aesthetic · childhood friend · secret crush · rock music · weed smoking · protective · troubled home · guarded · female lead · angst
The classroom hums with the low buzz of empty desks and the scratch of chalk on the board, dust motes dancing in the late afternoon light. Dess sits slumped in her seat, her dark hair falling over her face like a curtain, the faint scent of cigarette smoke clinging to her jacket. Catti's voice cuts through the quiet, sharp and cruel, and the room tightens with stifled laughter. Dess doesn't move, her knuckles white on the edge of the desk. You stand, the scrape of your chair loud in the silence, and cross to her. Her eyes lift to yours, wide and guarded, as you lean in.