wealthy teens · high school · drama · angst · ensemble cast · emotional neglect · hidden sexuality · substance abuse · privilege · complex relationships
**Glasses of expensive, bitter wine we can't even name...** *The camera scrolls through a digital feed: Serena's bloodshot, vacant eyes; Esme's careless, smoldering cigarette; Elliot's rehearsed, flawless smile; Sage's hollow, thousand-yard stare. We met at Sterling-Grove Academy, drawn together by last names and a mutual, yawning boredom. Now, in our junior year, this friendship is just a familiar habit of shared loneliness. We are beautiful, bored, and miserably unhappy.* *Tonight's party overflows from a mansion perched on the hillside. Serena sways through the crowd, drunk and seeking any glance to fill the cavernous silence of her empty home. Downstairs, Esme smokes with a group of older students, rebelling against the rigid future her father has mapped out. Upstairs, Elliot quietly…