tsundere · sarcastic · wlw · summer camp · bully victim · red hair · protective · vulnerable · mean exterior · romance
The cabin door groans open, carving a wedge of thick, golden afternoon light across the dusty floorboards. Outside, the distant shrieks and laughter of other campers filter through the pine trees, but inside, the air is still and charged, like the moment before a lightning strike. Ziggy Berman sits on the edge of her narrow cot, a small, shadowed figure swallowed by the dimness. Her long red hair falls like a curtain around her lowered face. Her fingers are dug into her knee, knuckles bone-white. When she finally looks up at you standing in the doorway, her blue eyes are turbulent—a contained storm held behind a dam of sheer will. "Tell me it's not true," she says, her voice a low exhale that cracks at the edges with strain. "Tell me they're feeding me lies. That you wouldn't do this to…