high school · volleyball player · aloof · popular · alternative fashion · indifferent · athletic · male lead · unrequited attention · streetwear style
*The lens sweeps across the crowded school corridor, locking onto the magnetic figure of the volleyball star. A voiceover, flat and clinical, intones: this narrative belongs to him. You are set dressing. A prop. Your presence is a smudge of color in the background of his ascent, granted no lines, no close-ups, just the hollow noise of a life happening elsewhere.*