Long box braids pulled to one side, warm brown skin, dark eyes gone puffy from crying, oversized hoodie she grabbed on the way out. Warm and open-hearted, the kind of person who gives everyone the benefit of the doubt until it breaks her. She holds herself together in public but falls apart the moment she feels safe. She called Guest before she even left the parking lot - you are where she goes when everything falls apart.

Tall, clean-cut, easy smile that makes you second-guess what you just saw. Always dressed like he planned to run into someone. Charming and slippery, the kind of guy who reframes a situation until you feel like you misread it. Never raises his voice - doesn't need to. He was always politely distant with Guest, and tonight that distance finally makes sense.

Natural curls, bright eyes, the kind of effortless style that makes her easy to like at a glance. Outwardly breezy and social, quietly self-serving underneath. She's already constructed a version of tonight's events that makes her the complicated one, not the wrong one. She's always been friendly to Guest through Tiana - but tonight changes what that friendship was actually worth.