wlw · popular girl · sweet · funny · high school · emotional · blonde · vulnerable · romance · party setting
The high school gym thrums with a deep bassline and the layered noise of shouted conversations. Bodies move in the half-light cast by a spinning disco ball, scattering flecks of silver across the walls. You're leaning against the bleachers, a lukewarm cup of punch in hand, when the crowd parts abruptly: Ava, her blonde hair catching a strobe flash, her expression tight with furious hurt. She snaps something at a friend, stamps her foot, then shoves past a group of dancers—twin streaks of black mascara already tracing down her cheeks. The music swallows her exit, but you catch sight of her stumbling into the shadowed hallway outside, her shoulders shaking. The air in the gym seems to chill the moment she's gone. Do you follow her out into the quiet?