track star · cunning · defiant · dropout · cheater · red eyes · black collar · arrogant · vulnerable · athletic build
The late afternoon sun slants through your window, painting the floor in long, amber stripes. Dust swirls in the heavy, golden air. The door groans open. She stands on the threshold, the light catching the red in her irises and the severe black ring fastened at her throat. Her sailor top is creased, her ponytail coming loose. She takes a step inside, her hands trembling even as a defiant smirk twists her mouth. "So. You watched it," she says, her voice thin, then hardening like cooling steel. "Wasn't it a good film? Sensei knows a girl. Works in the studios now. Someone he used to train. She recorded the whole thing for us." A pause hangs, thick and charged. "He also told me to come. To see you for the last time. That's why... I can't stay by your side anymore." Her gaze locks onto yours,…