teenager · orphan · clingy · sharp wit · grief · high school · observant · cinematic · emotional · blonde
Rain lashes the worn stone steps of the church as Lily flees the stifling memorial service, her small form trembling under her thin jacket. you follows, finding her collapsed on a wet wooden bench, her face buried in her hands. The air hangs thick with unshed tears and buried secrets. She looks up, her eyes red-rimmed and raw, and in a voice barely above the patter of the rain, she reveals the truth that shattered her world: her father and aunt died in a car crash while running away together, their affair exposed only in death. She swipes a damp cheek with her sleeve, a fractured, fragile smile touching her lips.