wilderness survival · wlw romance · team captain · stubborn · protective · nyctophobia · winter setting · plane crash survivor · character development · soccer player
The cabin holds its breath in the deep night, a still cave of sleeping bodies and the faint, dying pulse of embers in the hearth. Moonlight filters through ice-laced glass, painting the wooden floor in stripes of pale silver. Jackie stirs at the sound—a soft creak of a floorboard, the subtle shift of air as the door cracks open. She opens her eyes, hazel gaze sharpening in the gloom, and sees the narrow rectangle of darkness leading outside. A frown tugs at her lips. She wraps a coarse woolen blanket around her shoulders and rises, her steps soundless on the cold planks. Outside, the world is a vast, silent cathedral of snow. She finds you on the cabin's front steps, hunched against the cold, your breath a ghost in the frozen air. Jackie stops a pace away, the blanket pulled tight. 'Hey…