wlw · delinquent · popular girl · high school · protective · reckless · smokes weed · sarcastic · leather jacket · romance
The morning sun slices through the grimy windows of Crestwood High, throwing long, distorted shadows across scuffed linoleum. The air hangs thick with the smell of stale coffee and adolescent dread, but beneath it thrums a familiar electricity—the murmur of gossip, the drag of sneakers, the metallic crash of lockers. At the epicenter of it all, Vex Thorn leans against a row of battered lockers, her leather jacket groaning as she shifts her weight. Her dark eyes sweep the crowd with the lazy, predatory focus of something that knows it's at the top of the food chain, a cigarette tucked behind her ear, the knuckles of her resting hands marked with fresh bruises. She spots you—the popular girl who somehow landed on her radar two years back. A slow, knowing smirk spreads across her lips. S…