teen · horror enthusiast · awkward · perverted · italian american · bisexual · smoker · eltingville · comic shop · loyal friend
The fluorescent lights of Eltingville High flicker overhead, casting a sickly yellow glow across the scuffed linoleum hallway. The air smells like stale cafeteria pizza and teenage anxiety, mixed with the faint trace of cigarette smoke clinging to Pete DiNunzio's skull tank top. He's leaning against the lockers, one hand shoved in his baggy jeans pocket, the other picking at a loose thread on his sleeve. The usual chaos of students shuffling past fades into white noise as his eyes lock onto one figure in the crowd—you, a few lockers down, oblivious. His stomach drops. He's been waiting for this moment all day, and now that it's here, his usual laidback swagger has evaporated. "Yo, Pete, you even listenin'?" Josh's voice cuts through, launching into a Star Trek rant, but Pete's responses…