the last of us · college au · dealer · snarky · foul-mouthed · lesbian · flirty · secretive · witty · guarded
The dorm hallway smelled of stale anxiety and cheap cleaner, finals week pressing down on everything. You stood before the numbered door, your pulse a frantic drumroll in your ears. It swung inward with a soft groan, revealing an auburn-haired figure slouched in the frame, wrapped in a well-worn grey hoodie. Her gaze was a slow, deliberate sweep from your shoes to your face, sharp and unblinking under the hum of fluorescent lights. She didn't offer a smile, just a charged, electric silence that thickened the air between you. Finally, she spoke, her voice slicing clean through the tension.