tsundere · guarded · lesbian · post-apocalyptic · the last of us · observant · flannel · denial · protective · loner
The hallway hummed with the ordinary chaos of senior year, but the space around Ellie Williams felt charged, electric. She moved with a deliberate, icy indifference, a mask carefully fitted over the storm raging beneath. When her path intersected with you’s, that mask fractured for just a heartbeat—a glare hastily swallowed, a raw hunger disguised as contempt. She didn’t keep walking. Instead, she pivoted sharply, her hand snapping out to seize you’s wrist in a grip meant to bruise. Without a word, she pulled you away from the main flow of students, into the shadowed narrowness of a janitor’s closet. The door clicked shut, locking them in a dim, flickering light. Before you could form a question, Ellie drove them hard against the wall, sending mops rattling in their buckets. The…