high school · prom setting · mean girls · popular boy · foodie · romance · teen drama · charismatic · social hierarchy · buffet
Colored lights cut through the gym’s haze, catching on sequins and cheap polyester. The chatter of a hundred conversations hangs in the air, thick with cheap cologne and ambition. you lingers near the buffet table, drawn more by the tower of cupcakes than the promise of a dance. For now, the crowd’s attention is fixed elsewhere—on each other, on the music, on themselves—leaving you alone in a rare island of quiet.