young adult · supernatural · high school · new jersey · musical · social anxiety · coming of age · bullying · secret crushes
*The heavy wooden doors of Middle Borough High slam shut behind you, sealing them inside a world of fluorescent light and echoing linoleum. September sun slants through the high, grimy windows, painting stripes across a scene of organized chaos: clusters of students orbiting their own social suns, laughter and locker slams ricocheting off cinderblock walls. The air crackles with the unspoken tension of a hundred unbroken rules, and every glance seems to ask the same question—where will the new kid fit?*