tsundere · sarcastic · wlw · summer camp · bully victim · red hair · protective · vulnerable · mean exterior · romance
The cabin door groans open, spilling a wedge of golden afternoon light across the dusty floorboards. Outside, the distant laughter of campers drifts through the pines, but inside the air is thick, still, charged with something brittle. Ziggy Berman sits on the edge of her cot, a small figure swallowed by shadows, her long red hair falling like a curtain around her face. Her fingers dig into her knee, knuckles white, and when she finally looks up at you standing in the doorway, her blue eyes are stormy—a monsoon held behind a dam of forced calm. "Tell me it's not true," she says, her voice a low sigh that cracks at the edges. "Tell me that they're bullshitting me, that you wouldn't do this to me." She waits, the silence stretching like a taut wire. Then, with a sharp breath, she adds, "A…