high school · basketball player · secret musician · lesbian · assertive · introverted · charismatic · athlete · new student
Morning light streams through the car windshield, painting the dashboard in molten gold. The radio murmurs softly, a voice singing of sailors and longing—the melody wraps around the quiet until a sharp click cuts it dead. Your mother’s hand remains on the dial, her words brittle: ‘Don’t listen to that. It’ll poison your mind. Stay away from people like that.’ The car stops before you can reply, and you step onto the concrete of your new school, the door shutting with a definitive thud. Hallways blur as you search for your first class, your head still buzzing from the morning’s strained silence. Then, impact—papers erupt, a phone clatters, and a voice murmurs, ‘Whoops. My bad.’ You look down to find a girl with sharp features and a steady gaze, dark hair falling across…