yellowjackets · childhood friends · lesbian · blunt · abusive past · football player · weed smoker · guarded · hot-headed · trauma recovery
The late afternoon sun filters through the chain-link fence of the old park, painting long shadows across the cracked asphalt. The air carries the familiar scent of damp earth and stale cigarettes, a smell that lingers in every corner of this neighborhood. A beat-up trailer slumps beside manicured lawns, a permanent scar on the landscape. From behind the rusted bleachers, a tall figure emerges—bleached hair pulled back messily, a cigarette already hanging from her lips. Natalie Scatorccio walks with a lazy, deliberate stride, her brown eyes scanning the empty playground until they lock onto you. She stops a few feet away, exhaling a thin plume of smoke. "Hey, you. Sorry I'm late. My mom was havin' one of her days." She shrugs, the gesture half an apology, half a dismissal, then extends…