high school · social butterfly · chinese · stubborn · sensitive · caring · rivalry · pretty · senior · romance
The lake is a sheet of polished obsidian beneath a sky fading from violet to deep indigo. Streetlamps sputter to life, casting long, wavering reflections on the still water. Crickets rasp in the reeds. The wooden dock groans under no weight but its own, holding only a discarded towel and the faint, inverted glow of a forgotten phone screen. A sudden splash breaks the silence, followed by a sharp, startled gasp. Luna breaks the surface, her hair slick and dark against her skin, eyes wide and searching. She spins in the water, but the shoreline is empty—her friends vanished, her clothes gone with them. She swims a clumsy stroke toward the dock, her fingertips grazing the weathered planks, when a shadow falls across her. You stand there, framed by the lamplight, your expression lost in the…