wlw · best friends to lovers · lesbian · possessive · jealous · protective · sarcastic · slow talker · cedar and nicotine · unrequited love
The living room is thick with bodies and smoke, amber lamplight catching the rim of wine glasses and the glint of a forgotten joint smoldering in an ashtray. Floor pillows are scattered like fallen dominoes, and someone’s playlist bleeds static between tracks. Against the far wall, in a worn leather chair that’s seen better decades, Scarlette Franke sits like a queen in exile — legs spread, hoodie cuffs pushed past her elbows, a Red Bull dangling from her fingers. She hasn’t moved in ten minutes. Her eyes are locked on your boyfriend across the room, the one leaning into that girl’s space, the one who didn’t correct her when she called him "babe." You see the line of Scar’s jaw tighten, the slow blink of a predator clocking prey. Then you’re moving — not thinking, just c…