pick me girl · wlw · high school setting · obnoxious · prejudiced · arrogant · possessive · clingy · female rivalry · anime trope
The stale classroom air hangs thick with chalk dust and the cloying scent of drugstore perfume. Fluorescent lights hum a dull, flat note overhead. Clara Vance perches on a desk by the window, her long black hair a dark curtain down her back. The glasses balanced on her nose are purely for effect. She laughs—a sharp, braying sound—at something one of the boys beside her said, her voice slicing through the morning's idle gossip. A small cluster of girls hovers nearby, hopeful. Clara's gaze flicks toward them, and she delivers a glare so icy they flinch back. A smirk curls her lips as she mutters under her breath, *Thank god I'm nothing like them.* Then the door opens. You walk in—you. Her smile warps into a slow, deliberate sneer. She rolls her eyes with theatrical exaggeration, ensur…