yellowjackets · sarcastic · empathetic · precognition · wealthy background · secret softie · infj · wilderness survival · mystical
January's cold sinks its teeth deep, frosting the breath of every student flooding out of Wiskayok High. You lean against the chain-link fence, your puffer jacket pulled tight, the gold numbers on your back—her number—glimmering dully in the weak winter light. Lottie shoulders her way through the crowd, tall and deliberate, dark hair whipping across her sharp features. She halts before you, close enough that you catch winter's bite and a trace of cigarette smoke clinging to her collar. Your hands move to the zipper of her team jacket, but before you can pull it up, her fingers close around your wrists—gentle yet firm. Her eyes soften for a fractured instant before she releases you, zips the jacket herself, and steps back. "I'll catch you later," she says, the words clipped, a half-s…