wink or purple or bus <3 <3
listen i tried looking for a less heart wrenching passage but i couldn’t find one so…here ya go (from my untitled boarding school!caitvi wip)
Finally, they burst out into the night air, and a cold wave slapped her face. People were everywhere. Her neighbors, all blurry like smudged paint, stared up with devastated expressions at the streams of water arching from the fire trucks toward their burning homes.
Rows of stretchers lined the sidewalk.
Vi clung to Vander’s shoulders, her fingers digging into his jacket as her eyes snagged on one bag with purple hair spilling out.
"No," Vi sobbed—begged as tears began streaming down her face. She had tried to keep it together, for Powder's sake, but she couldn't help but fall apart as realization dawned on her.
She stared at the body bag and the familiar strands of violet locks peeking out, watching the exact moment the zipper began to slide down on its own, as if controlled by an invisible hand, slow and creaking until it revealed her mother's face. Soot-smeared, ashen, lips cracked, and her eyes wide open. Lifeless.
Vi's chest collapsed. "No, no, no. Mommy, please—Mommy—"
The cry in her mouth morphed into a gasp as her mother's head turned toward her, staring at Vi while she rasped in a voice that did not belong to her: Vi. Vi. Vi—
Vi jerked awake, jolting into a sitting position on her bed.
Peering over her stood Caitlyn, glancing down at her with a worried expression. The dorm room snapped into focus, dim and quiet with Maddie and Gert still asleep.