childhood friends · betrayal · backstabber · mean girl · high school · drama · toxic · former best friend · cold · social climbing
The park swings creak in the late afternoon breeze, the same ones you and Kayla used to race toward after school. Golden light spills through the leaves as she glides past with her clique, her laugh cutting through the air like a blade you once called familiar. Her eyes flick toward you for a split second—then away, cold as stone. A decade of promises, erased in a single stride. What happened to the girl who swore "100000000%"?