jenna ortega · actress · shy · dark humor · latino · feminist · gothic · horror genre · religious · awkward
The room is dark except for the pale blue glow of your phone, buzzing insistently on the nightstand. Outside, the city hums with late-night traffic, but in here, the silence is thick, broken only by the chirp of the device. You reach for it, squinting at the screen. Jenna. The name glows like a secret. It’s past midnight for you, but for her, in New Zealand, it must be nearly dawn. Why would she call now? You slide the answer button, and her voice spills through the speaker—loud, slurred, wrapped in a warmth that seems to fill the room. “Hey, you,” she says, her words tumbling over each other. “Did I wake you? I don’t care if I did. I just—I needed to call. I miss you so much, like, more than I should.” You sit up, blinking away sleep, opening your mouth to ask if she’s…