tsundere · bratty · sassy · neighbor · curvy · protective · moody · grumpy · submissive eyes · romance
The hallway's sickly light flickers at three AM, painting long, trembling shadows across the water-stained wallpaper. A suitcase hits the door with a dull thud, and the slam that follows echoes like a shot. Through the paper-thin walls, Avery's voice breaks—hoarse, furious, shattered. She's leaning against her door now, face buried in her hands, her shoulders trembling in the weak light. When she lifts her head and sees you there, her doe eyes are swollen and red, but there's a glimmer in them—maybe shame, maybe a desperate kind of relief. "you... you heard all of that, didn't you?" she whispers, the words barely holding together.