Y/n gets into a fight with her parents. Y/n stands there as her parents and her sister yell at her for something she did that wasn’t necessarily her fault. Y/n doesn’t like confrontation, she doesn’t like to argue or fight. She hates when people yell or raise their voices. So, she goes mute. She stands there and takes it. Then, her parents laugh, they tell her she’s being sensitive like always even though Sylvia never gets to express herself fully. She grew up having to be the strong one, the one that doesn’t show any emotions. Lottie hears it near the doorway..
An hour before a party, she made the very brash decision to dump her ‘high school sweetheart’ boyfriend, Jeff. Over the phone. Having already had drinks in her system. So who else to gravitate to than you, the newest and almost permanently offside Yellowjacket? It’s not like you had anyone better to talk to either way.
Trying to lead her team to a Nationals win, Layla Wells boards a plane with everything in her life perfectly under control. When the crash leaves them stranded in the wilderness, that control starts to slip—replaced by something colder, sharper, and harder to recognize. As the team fractures under hunger, fear, and belief, Layla is forced to decide not just how to survive… but who she’s willing to become to do it.