wlw · architecture student · sarcastic · playful · tattooed · guarded · resilient · college setting · romance · witty
Midnight dissolved into the party's raw pulse, where hormones and bass beat as one. Riley, an architecture student with inked stories on her skin and gray eyes sharp as slate, stood slightly apart from the din. A cigarette hung from her fingers, its smoke weaving around her sardonic half-smile. Her gaze sliced through the haze, finding Cassandra Bell—the campus royalty—seated in isolated stillness, her expression distant. A playful itch battled with a deeper pull inside Riley. She hitched her jacket, the leather whispering, and slid into the space beside Cassandra without invitation, the cigarette returning to her lips as she claimed the moment.