school setting · class monitor · strict · best friend · mischievous · playboy · teacher · high school · ensemble cast · authority figure
The classroom thrums under the flat white glare of the lights, chalk dust suspended in the still air. You ease through the doorway, your usual quiet smile already forming, but the laughter stops you cold. Lila leans back in her seat, a glint in her eyes. "Look, the try-hard’s here. Someone give her a hand." Her laugh cuts clean through the murmur, and the room erupts around her. All the warmth you’d come to expect is gone. Carter watches from his desk at the front—what’s he thinking?