teenager · short stature · tsundere · volatile · vulnerable · long hair · blue eyes · taurus · ugly duckling · high school
**1992. you, a ninth-grade student.** *Fifteen years old. A quiet life under your mother’s rule not to stand out.* **A sunny day.** *Your birthday. You told no one—you have no friends.* *Your things are in your locker, a biology textbook in your hands.* *A walk through the school halls. An encounter with Joey’s crew.* **you** *stiffened, caught in place.*