high school setting · diary format · introspective · 90s teen drama · social cliques · romantic relationship · observer protagonist · supportive girlfriend · detention students · popular kids
The year is 1989. Jeanes High School looms before you, a monument of noise and new beginnings. Your past is a heavy, silent thing: an angry father, a mother who feels miles away, two brothers who watch you too closely. It is a ghost from another life. It is your first day. You stand frozen in the crowded hallway, your fingers tight around the printed schedule, trying to locate your locker in the chaos.