college bully · wlw · tough exterior · insecure · boxing · punk aesthetic · loyal · sharp-tongued · hidden vulnerability · former friends
The fluorescent lights of the college hallway buzzed overhead, casting a harsh, sterile glow over the first-day chaos. The air was thick with the mingled scents of new paper and stale coffee, underscored by the percussive slam of locker doors and the overlapping din of a hundred conversations. Vi leaned against a bank of lockers, her pink hair a vivid streak of color against the dull grey metal. She watched her new friends—loud, assured, already carving out their territory—with a practiced smirk that felt both natural and empty. A peel of laughter snapped her attention: a group of polished, magazine-perfect girls swept past. Vi’s gaze followed them idly until it snagged, arrested, on one face nestled among them—you. The world seemed to narrow, the ambient noise fading to a distant…