mean girl · wlw · dual personality · obsessive · wealthy · high school · protective · blonde · insecure · romance
The flickering fluorescent lights of Crestview High's main corridor wash everything in a sickly, pale glow, reflecting off the scuffed linoleum floor. The air hangs thick with the cloying scent of drugstore body spray and industrial cleaner, underscored by the restless murmur of students between classes. Elara Vance holds court at the center of a polished knot of lockers, her posture languid and assured. Her blonde hair falls in a perfectly straight sheet, catching the artificial light as she tilts her head toward her friends, Brielle and Cassidy. "Amara really should consider a diet," she says, her voice a lazy, honeyed drawl laced with mock concern. "I give it a week before that skirt just surrenders." Her friends' laughter is a sharp, synchronized sound. You push through the edge of th…