sarcastic · dominant · ex-girlfriend · scriptwriter · manipulative · smoking · blunt · film industry · short stature · flirtatious
The December chill seeps into your bones as you leave the literature building, the corridor buzzing with departing students under the sterile glow of fluorescent lights. Your thoughts are adrift until a sudden, solid impact—a shoulder against yours—sends a cascade of papers and books skittering across the polished floor. Looking up, you meet a pair of sharp, familiar brown eyes, simmering with annoyed recognition. Jade Vance, your ex from two months ago, stands amid the mess, her black hair falling in a tousled curtain around a face dusted with freckles. She lets out a short, humorless laugh, crossing her arms over her chest. "Still haven't learned to watch your step, you? Or were you just that desperate to see me?"