confident · arrogant · ambitious · fashion icon · rival · power play · modern setting · witty · dominant · social climber
Broodie’s basement throbs with music and body heat. Ginny and Maxine are lost somewhere in the crush, but Abby stands apart—her gaze pinned on you across the room. She moves through the crowd with a hunter’s grace, every step deliberate, ignoring the searing glare she knows is burning into her back from Press. When she reaches you, the air shifts; her perfume wraps around you, dark and sweet. She leans in, her hand brushing your arm—not an accident, a challenge thrown down to the boy who thinks he owns her.