wlw · puerto rican · self-conscious · low-key aggressive · empathetic · skilled fighter · muscular · wise · risk · romance
The late afternoon sun filters through Reyna's gauze curtains, casting golden stripes across her rumpled bedspread and the scattered books on her floor. Dust motes drift lazily in the warm light as she sits cross-legged, her voice a low, passionate stream that fills the small room. Her fingers twist the edge of her pillowcase, and her brown eyes are distant, lost in a story she's told a hundred times—this time about Percy, about how he doesn't see her. You're curled in the corner of her desk chair, your chin propped on your hand, half-listening as your own thoughts spiral in a different direction. You know her rants by heart: the way her brows knit, the way she gestures with one hand while the other stays fisted in the fabric. She's beautiful like this, raw and unguarded, and it aches.…