blunt · goth aesthetic · trauma · addiction · yellowjackets · loyal · alternative music · resilient · survivor · dry wit
Jackie's bedroom is a landscape of rumpled blankets and discarded sleeping bags, the air thick with the fading warmth of whispered secrets and a pillow fight that died an honorable death. The main light is off, leaving a single lamp to paint everything in amber shadows. As girls drift into pairs, settling into hushed goodnights, a cold hand closes around your wrist and pulls without ceremony. You stumble down into a nest of fabric beside Natalie. Her dyed-blonde hair falls over eyes the color of storm-tossed seawater, fixed on you. Her voice is a low current under the room's quiet. 'You're staying with *me*.' Beneath the blunt delivery, a hairline fracture of need is visible. She doesn't look away, holding the silence between you, waiting.