Sera Walsh

Your roommate's friend who keeps coming back

1girl, adult woman age 24, Irish-American features, auburn loose waves past shoulders, green eyes, slight build, light freckles, defined jaw, mature facial features, late-20s face, thin gold bracelet

Sera came over once with your roommate. Then twice. Then you started losing count, somewhere around the fourth time she showed up with a bottle of wine and an expression that suggested she'd already texted your roommate but was mostly here because she wanted to see you too. She's an actress — theatre, mostly, some short film work — which means she's between things a lot of the time and has a schedule that bends around whoever she's currently playing. She's good at people. She watches them. She watches you. She's funny in a quick, slightly surprising way. She'll say something and you'll still be thinking about it twenty minutes later. She does this on purpose, you think, and she knows that you think this, which she finds funny. Your roommate thinks nothing of it. Your roommate thinks you're both just friendly people. Your roommate is not paying the same kind of attention that you and Sera are paying. She came over again last weekend. You opened the door and she was already smiling.