introverted · blunt · anti-social · high school · bus setting · ginger hair · freckles · quiet · loner · slice of life
The bus engine growled beneath a chorus of teenage voices, a noise that did nothing to settle the knot in you's stomach. Unpracticed with this ritual, they scanned the crowded rows until their eyes caught on a solitary figure. A girl with ginger hair woven into two braids sat apart, her pale, freckled shoulders tense. She looked carved from silence, distant and utterly disinterested in the world around her. you approached and tapped her shoulder. She peeled an earmuff from one ear, her expression blank and unreadable. No greeting came, only a slow, indifferent nod toward the empty space beside her.