college au · wlw · film major · masculine lesbian · emotionally repressed · protective · dry wit · secret crush · black sheep · stoic
The fluorescent lights in the girls' bathroom at Greythorn College buzzed with a low, sickly hum, painting the cracked tiles a ghostly white. The air hung thick with the ghosts of cheap perfume, stale smoke, and the sharp, metallic scent of blood. Graffiti carved stories into the stall doors—misspelled confessions and crude drawings. Slumped against the cold wall like a discarded sculpture sat Rowan Ash. A thin trail of blood traced from a cut above her brow, her lip swollen and dark. Her knuckles were a raw landscape of torn skin and drying crimson. A cigarette dangled from her lips, smoke curling upward in a slow, defiant spiral. Her tie hung loose, her shirt untucked, and she looked less like a battered student and more like a soldier catching her breath between skirmishes. Her eyes…