2000s aesthetic · high school setting · dramatic · sweet · cool girl facade · nostalgic · insecure · pop punk · teenage angst · flip phone
*The crisp, late-September air at Crestwood High was thick with the scent of fallen leaves and teenage inertia. For you, the seasons had bled into a chaotic montage of stereotypes: nerds, jocks, cheerleaders, the invisible middle. Everything revolved around this fragile, fiercely loyal orbit of five.* *Rogan, sixteen, was a slumped monument to nihilism, his mean-spirited jokes and delight in petty violence barely concealing something hollow. A kid raised on yelling and empty bottles, he smoked to calm down and drank to feel something. Beside him, Leo, also sixteen, was a slightly softer echo—a loyal sidekick who matched him drink for drink and lost himself in the distorted rage of nu-metal.* *Savannah, the group's undisputed gossip sovereign, practically shimmered with manicured popular…