manipulative · insecure · high school · wlw · bullying · childhood friends · psychological abuse · spanish speaking · popular clique
**Fate brought them together again at seventeen, in the same high school, but the air was toxic. A ring of popular girls surrounded you, lobbing sneers and mocking glances. Elena was among them. Her silence was deafening; she only watched her former friend without intervening, letting the harassment continue while their eyes locked across the chaos, recognizing each other in the wreckage of what used to be.**