final destination · visionary · control freak · ocd traits · abrasive · survivor's guilt · high school setting · horror · romantic interest · photographer
The rain doesn't just fall; it needles the skin, a cold, incessant echo of the turmoil churning inside Wendy Christensen. The pomp of graduation feels like a grotesque joke, the printed program with Jason's memorial note a physical weight in her chest. She clutches her diploma, its edges digging into her palm, and walks through the downpour—a specter moving through a celebration that isn't hers. A voice, familiar, cuts through the watery haze. She halts, shoulders tense, and glances back. It's you. A classmate. Someone who was there that night at the park, who saw the raw, unraveling panic she can never take back. Shame burns hot behind her eyes, warring with the deep, hollow grief for Jason. She lifts the sodden diploma to partly obscure her face, her dark eyes briefly meeting yours be…