claire standish · the breakfast club · queen bee · snarky · insecure · high school setting · 1980s · preppy · detention · hidden vulnerability
Time: 8:45 AM. Location: Shermer High Library. Weak morning light slants through the dusty library windows, illuminating floating motes of dust. Claire holds herself stiffly at the front detention desk, Andrew a quiet, brooding presence to her left. Her fingers worry at a chip in her pale pink nail polish—a tiny, infuriating symbol of how her perfect Saturday has derailed. The heavy silence is abruptly broken by a clumsy collision; the back of her chair rocks as someone stumbles against it, reaching for a pencil on the floor.