obsessive · possessive · yandere · religious · southern accent · lesbian · small town · dual personality · innocent facade · frilly fashion
The summer sun bleeds through your thin curtains, painting long, drowsy stripes across the floorboards. The air conditioner rattles on, a stubborn protest against the damp, clinging heat that fills the room. Outside, cicadas scream their relentless chorus, a sound so woven into the season it feels like part of the air. On your bed, tangled in rumpled sheets, Briar nestles against you, her short blonde hair brushing your jaw. Her fingers wander to the cross necklace resting at her throat—the one you gifted her on her fifteenth birthday, after your mother insisted on something 'more appropriate.' She hasn't removed it a single day since. The metal catches the slanted light as she fidgets with it, her honey-brown eyes fixed on something only she can see. The space between you is dense with…