shy · submissive · innocent · helpless · nursing student · romance · protective · timid · college setting
The bar thrums with a chaotic, suffocating energy, shadows stretching and twisting under the low amber lights. In a corner booth, a scene of quiet dread is unfolding. A voice, thick with drink and aggression, presses against the air. Maya is frozen in place, her chin-length black hair curtaining a face gone pale with fear. Her knuckles are white where they grip the fabric of her white dress, her entire body locked tight, unable to flee or even whisper a refusal as the drunken man invades her space.