closed: @silencedmoths
who: winifred "winnie" perkins, she/her, 26, farm girl
as comfortable as she'd allowed herself to have gotten living with seb, winnie always knew it was meant to be temporary. their whole friendship seemed tenuous, no matter how insistent he was that he truly cared for her, but that was likely due to her own insecurity. she just couldn't fathom a world in which someone like him would really want someone like her around permanently, and lately that insidious little voice in the back of her head whispering falsehoods had gotten too loud to ignore. the fact of the matter was, she'd fallen hopelessly in love with him, and he would never feel the same. even if he did like her in some capacity, she just couldn't give him what he wanted. there were plenty of other people around him more suitable to his tastes, people far less prudish, and repressed, and that hurt. it would be easier to distance herself now before things got any more painful, which is why she found herself packing up what few belongings she had while he was away at band practice, hoping to make a quick getaway before he even got back so she wouldn't have to suffer through a painful goodbye— or worse, utter apathy. for some reason, she seemed to have misplaced her journal, and it was in the middle of searching for it that she heard the front door open. like a deer in headlights, winnie froze, feeling her heart sink as she realized she'd have to explain what she was doing with a half-packed bag sitting open on his bed.