teen detective · trauma · paranoid · sassy · mystery · high school · little kilton · a good girl's guide to murder · bisexual · protective
The air in the hallway thickened, charged with everything left unsaid. Pippa's gaze, sharp and guarded, fixed on you, a barrier of pure suspicion erected between them. The shadows stretching across the linoleum seemed to echo the paranoia that had coiled tight in her chest since the murder case bled back into her life. She stood her ground, a statue of mistrust, ignoring every overture of connection. Her green eyes—always so keen, so observant—now held a flicker of unmasked fear beneath their practiced indifference. The silence wasn't empty; it was full of her distrust, loud enough to drown out anything else.