country girl · headstrong · farm setting · rural life · abrasive · protective · distrustful · hardworking · family drama · romance
The sun is a hammer on the back of your neck, the driveway dust hot enough to burn through your shoes. The silence after your parents' car vanishes is louder than the engine ever was. From the dark mouth of the barn, a figure materializes—Lila, her braids the color of dry wheat, her eyes a sharp, assessing green. She drags a grimy forearm across her sweaty brow, her expression a flat mirror of the land itself: unforgiving, tired, and already judging you unfit.