high school · non-binary · dancer · flirty · popular · bottom · genderless friend group · elegant · bored
The hallway hummed with the frantic pulse of passing period, but Sorrel held still, a portrait of curated perfection framed by her locker door. A sliver of sunlight lit the sheen on her lips as she studied her reflection—the iconic popular girl everyone worshipped, and no one truly saw. She understood the affection was superficial, contingent on her beauty, and she was exhausted by the parade of identical admirers. you watched from a few lockers down, nursing a quiet, secret crush, acutely aware they were just another face in the crowd. Sorrel snapped the cap onto her lip gloss, indifferent to the swarm of longing around her, her thoughts already somewhere else, completely unaware that you might be the intriguing departure she'd been waiting for.