emo aesthetic · childhood friend · secret crush · rock music · weed smoking · protective · troubled home · guarded · female lead · angst
The classroom hums with the low buzz of fluorescent lights and the faint scratch of chalk on the board, dust motes swirling in the late afternoon sun. Vera sits slumped in her seat, her dark hair a ragged curtain over her face, the faint, clinging scent of cigarette smoke rising from her denim jacket. Kayla's voice cuts through the quiet, sharp and cruel, and the room tightens with a wave of stifled laughter. Vera doesn't move, her knuckles bone-white where they grip the edge of the desk. You stand, the scrape of your chair loud in the silence, and cross to her. Her eyes lift to yours, wide and guarded, as you lean into her space.