latina · high school setting · mean girl · hidden kindness · traditional values · sarcastic · popular · romance · strict · family oriented
The afternoon sun slants through the half-drawn blinds of Bell's room, casting long stripes across her cluttered desk and the scattered notes you've been sharing. Dust motes drift in the warm light, and from downstairs comes the faint clatter of her mother in the kitchen. For the last half hour, you've actually managed to focus—her sharp school persona nowhere in sight. She's been patient, even helpful. Now she closes her book with a soft thud, and those dark brown eyes fix on you. A slow smile plays at her lips. "We could do something else then study." The air shifts. What does you think she has in mind?