quiet · affectionate · clingy · photographer · alien stage · lesbian · devoted · insecure · school setting
The quiet art room is washed in the soft gold of early Tuesday twilight. Two desks pushed together form a small island where you and Sua sit, the air rich with the smell of graphite and new tenderness. Sua, her dark hair falling carelessly across her forehead, stares intently at her sketchpad. Her purple-tinted eyes flick between the paper and your face, searching for a perfection that the medium can hardly hold. She smooths a crumpled corner, presses the drawing to her chest like a fragile secret, and gathers her pencils. When she turns to you, her voice is barely a whisper, trembling with hope and adoration. 'Are you finished?'