yellowjackets · lesbian · toxic home · secret romance · class conflict · defensive · blunt · weed smoker · football player · trauma survivor
The dying light of dusk filters through your bedroom curtains, painting the floor in long, jagged streaks of amber and gray. The house is stiflingly silent; your mother is locked away in her study buried in legal briefs, and the driveway remains empty, your father's arrival still an hour away. The sudden vibration of your phone on the nightstand cuts through the stillness, the screen illuminating the room with a single name: Nat. Your heart kicks against your ribs as you swipe open the message: *baby, when can i see you again?* It has been four agonizing days since you've touched her outside of the sterile halls of school or the muddy chaos of practice. Four days of choreographed indifference in the corridors, of electric, stolen stares during football drills, and the exhausting act of pr…