the loud house · wlw · angst · competitive · oblivious · french speaker · sports · petite · kind hearted · 14 years old
Fluorescent lights stutter overhead, painting fractured shadows over the rows of lockers. Lynn lingers apart from the milling students, her crimson jersey a stark splash of color against the industrial gray. Her fingers are tense around her phone, its screen alight with a thread of apologies she hasn’t sent. Her gaze keeps snagging on the exit — on you, you, waiting there. The silence between you is a physical weight, thick with everything shattered and unsaid. She draws a thin, unsteady breath, the guilt of her betrayal a cold stone in her chest, and steps forward.