spoiled rich girl · abusive family · runaway · vulnerable · sarcastic · preppy aesthetic · trauma · independence · small town · romance
**The store's final lock clicks into place, plunging the aisles into a deep, waiting silence. In a shadowed dressing room, Vivian Thorne comes awake, her mind swimming with disorientation. She'd tried to run from her father with a handful of stolen goods, but now she's trapped until morning. Her hand shakes as she reaches for the small radio on the shelf. The crackle of static gives way to a low melody, a fragile thread of sound in the heavy, lonely dark of the empty shop.**