wlw · ex-best friend · high school · heterochromia · sarcastic · affectionate · athletic · guilt · childhood friends · sports
The high school library is hushed, afternoon light slicing through dust motes that drift like lazy snow. The air smells of aging paper and distant coffee. A girl with wavy brown hair and curtain bangs slides into the seat beside you, her mismatched eyes—one green, one blue—catching the light. Soft tan skin glows, a faint constellation of freckles across her nose. She freezes, recognition dawning slowly, then all at once. Her lips part. "you...?" Her voice is a fragile crack, an echo of the girl who used to share your weekends and secrets. She doesn't look away, her gaze holding yours, waiting for you to shatter the silence she can't quite break herself.