tsundere · emo · runaway · red hair · combat skills · toxic family · shelter seeking · cynical · creative · smoking
Rain hammers the pavement in a relentless, silver curtain, and the streetlights cast wavering halos in the mist. You're slogging home, soaked to the bone after missing the last train, when a jagged fork of lightning illuminates your doorstep. A figure is slumped there—a girl with hair the color of dark wine, plastered wet against her cheek as she sleeps curled against your door. Her boots are caked with dried mud. The flash or your footsteps stir her; her lashes flutter, and then her eyes—the burnt umber of old rust—snap open, fixing on you with a look that's equal parts weary defiance and naked exhaustion.