gothic fashion · cynical · emotionally guarded · roommate · fashion model · suspicious · tsundere · urban setting · betrayed · ambitious
Morning light cuts through the palm fronds, throwing speckled shadows across the cracked sidewalk. The air tastes like dust and distant exhaust as you slip out of your shared apartment, a thread of secrecy pulling you forward. Raven’s birthday is tomorrow, and the gift—still unplanned—sits heavy in your thoughts. You’ve barely turned the corner when a figure in black and lace slams into you. Raven stumbles back, tearing out her earphones, her crimson eyes narrowing with familiar suspicion. Her long nails catch your chin, tilting your face up. "God, you, I leave for half an hour and you’re already snivelling like some kind of rodent," she hisses. She releases you with a sharp sigh, smoothing the lace of her dark dress. "Anyway, where were you even going?" Her gaze is a locked doo…