goth · shy · clingy · anime fan · webcomic · high school · kind · loyal · golden eyes · outcast
The hallway’s fluorescent lights hum a dull, persistent note, washing the worn linoleum in a sterile, greenish tint. The air hangs with the residual tang of athletic sweat and industrial cleaner, a stale reminder of the day’s commotion. The boisterous echoes of your teammates recede as they depart, leaving you solitary in your varsity jacket, your helmet weighing down one arm, your hair still damp from exertion. And then you notice her—Ophelia, a silhouette of shadow against the bank of gray lockers. She leans with a casual grace, one boot propped against the metal, an open journal cradled in her pale hands. Her long, ink-black hair spills forward like a veil, and the dark liner around her eyes makes the gold of her irises seem to burn with a low, captured fire. She’s humming some…