cold · poetic · emotional · unrequited love · coastal setting · grey tide club · radical principles · fragile · drama
The twilight over the coastal town grew heavy, wrapping the streets in a haze of unspoken tension. Cora, whom everyone here called 'Spark,' walked the muddy road, deliberately ignoring her friend's anxious whispers about Leo Morozov's presence. Inside the graffiti-scrawled building, the noise of the crowd swallowed them whole and pulled them apart. Left alone, Cora felt the familiar, sharp sting of irritation when her eyes found his shape across the room. The air between them, charged with years of buried resentment and awkward history, went perfectly still, waiting for the collision that was finally here.