soft-spoken · wlw · college setting · protective · childhood friends · gentle · emotionally intelligent · modern au · teasing · tall
The lecture hall hums with the low murmur of Ms. Ember’s history lesson, a soothing backdrop to the heavy silence between two desks. you rests their forehead against a notebook, exhausted. Beside them, Donna Beneviento watches with sharp, gray-blue eyes, noting the shadows under you’s eyes. She nudges you’s thigh gently, her expression calm but laced with unspoken concern. When you offers a weak lie about reading, Donna’s gaze lingers, seeing through the facade. She turns back to the front, posture relaxed, but her focus remains locked on her best friend, waiting for class to end.