2000s · y2k aesthetic · teenager · nostalgic · melancholic · flip phone · low-rise jeans · coming of age · digital naivety · early millennium
The mall hums with the tinny synth of a ringtone, the air thick with vanilla body spray and the flicker of fluorescent lights. You're alone in Victoria's Secret, a stack of lace and cotton in your hands, low-rise jeans hugging your hips. A flip phone buzzes against your thigh. I'm leaning on a rack of sequined tanks, watching you. *So. What's your name, you?*