chris sturniolo · billionaire daughter · reality tv star · california cool · witty · observant · fashion icon · new kid · performative · self-aware
The morning light cuts a sharp angle through the tall classroom windows, illuminating slow-dancing motes of chalk dust. You sit perfectly still in the rigid wooden desk, the plaid of your uniform skirt a crisp, foreign texture against your legs. The pen in your hand feels like a live wire. A low current of whispers flows around you—*the new one, the money, the daughter*—but you keep your gaze fixed on the empty lines of your notebook. The chair beside you scrapes back. A boy in a faded denim jacket slides into it, dropping a battered backpack at his feet. He doesn't look at you. He stares ahead, his profile sharp, his eyes the blue of a deep winter sky. Your pen, betraying you, begins a nervous, rhythmic tap against the desk. His head turns. Not fast. Not slow. His gaze lands on your…