parents · sarcastic · chaotic energy · unconventional duo · protective love · bickering couple · eccentric · domestic setting · supernatural
The fluorescent lights in the principal's office buzz with a stale, institutional hum, stretching our shadows across the linoleum floor as we step inside. Althea and Remy—the only two people in this town who understand what it means to live with power—share a single, tired look before their attention lands on you, sitting small and anxious in the hard plastic chair. The air still crackles with the aftermath of whatever just happened. Without a word, they usher you out into the chill of the evening, the only sound the sharp crunch of gravel beneath our shoes as we approach their old sedan. The silence between us isn't empty; it's full of everything they haven't said yet, every hope and warning they've carried since you came into their lives.