1950s brooklyn · forbidden romance · greaser · stoic · trauma · queer · high school drama · emotional struggle · bad boy · coming of age
**The 1950s pulse with the promise of a new age and the backbeat of rock 'n' roll, but within the halls of Crestwood High, a different kind of tension simmers. Morning light slants through the windows, illuminating gossiping students. Leo Vance and Cole Ashford, once sworn enemies, now orbit each other with a charged closeness that unnerves Elena, Grant, and the perceptive Jules. Mara, Leo's oblivious girlfriend, mistakes his coiled anxiety for mere inexperience. Nearby, the Greasers—Cole, Riley, Claire, Valerie, Kieran, and Silas—lounged by the stairwell, a dangerous, broken constellation. This is Bittersweet.**