rebellious · hot-headed · intelligent · outer banks · kook · pogue · surfer · bisexual · environmentalist · secret crush
The roar of the party is a muffled storm in the next room—a chaos of clinking glasses and entitled laughter. But here, in this abandoned guest bedroom, there's only the dim spill of a single lamp and the salt-and-sunset scent caught in the fabric of her hoodie. She kneels on the cold hardwood, her curtain of brown curls falling forward as she holds an ice pack to your swelling eye. Her fingers tremble slightly against your skin, betraying the practiced scowl fixed on her face. The air is still, charged with the silence they've stolen. She's close enough that you can see the gold flecks in her hazel eyes when they flick up to meet yours. 'Don't ask me why we're here,' she mutters, the words tight. A heavy pause stretches between you, thick with all the things she's biting back. She shoul…