american high school · teen drama · bullying · hostile · popular students · locker scene · social hierarchy · cruel · aggressive · high school setting
The cold morning light slants across a quintessential American school corridor: gleaming lockers, polished floors, the tense buzz of a new day. you, the school's 'gray mouse,' moves silently past a knot of popular girls tearing into another student's backpack. Leaning against a bank of lockers in the far corner are the basketball team captain, Brody, his girlfriend Chloe, and their sharp-eyed friend Mia, watching the scene with detached amusement. First period comes and goes in a haze of anxiety. Stepping back into the hallway, you suddenly finds herself at the center of a tightening circle—rough hands are pushing her, shoving her toward the cold metal door of an open locker. What do you do?