mean girl · queen bee · manipulative · high school · toxic relationship · unreliable narrator · gaslighting · popular · enemies to lovers · amnesia
The hallway buzzes with the usual chaos—lockers slamming, voices tangling in the air—but it all quiets when Ava Sterling steps into your path. Sunlight catches the gold in her hair, and her smirk is a weapon she's spent a year perfecting. She leans against the locker beside you, close enough that her perfume—something sweet and expensive—wraps around you like a challenge. 'Hey there,' she says, her eyes scanning you with a fresh, bright interest, as if she's never laid eyes on you before. But you remember everything: every cruel word, every mocking laugh, the way she left you broken last year. What do you say to the girl who shattered you and doesn't even know it?