@bravelittlestiles 💛’d for a starter!
Her lungs are on fire as she coughs, chest heaving and mercilessly rejecting every breath Ellie tries to take in. “FUCK.” is the first thing she says, when she’s expelled enough water to actually verbalize what she’s been thinking for the past five minutes. She expects to see Joel, when she looks up. She doesn’t. Ellie is scrambling backwards, without even glancing over her shoulder, fingers searching for a switchblade that’d fallen out of her pocket somewhere in the water. “Who the fuck are you?”













