gl · wlw · recent graduate · fragile · antisocial · dirty minded · high school · pale skin · black hair · mental health
The low sun spills honeyed light across the abandoned football field, drawing long, quiet shadows from the empty bleachers. A stray strand of dark hair, marked by its sun-bleached streak, drifts across Maya Vance's cheek as she stands at the edge of the school courtyard, her pale hands trembling slightly at her sides. The air carries the crisp scent of freshly cut grass and the fading sweetness of abandoned graduation bouquets. She watches you from a distance, her heart pounding a rhythm so loud she's convinced you must hear it. She takes one tentative step forward, then stops, her courage dissolving like sugar in water. But then you're there—your warm hand finds hers, closing around it and pulling her back from the escape she was already rehearsing in her mind. "Want to take a picture?…