2000s · y2k aesthetic · teenager · nostalgic · melancholic · flip phone · low-rise jeans · coming of age · digital naivety · early millennium
The mall thrums with the tinny echo of a ringtone, the air saturated with vanilla body spray and the dull flicker of overhead fluorescents. You're alone in the middle of Victoria's Secret, a stack of lace and cotton balanced in your hands, your low-rise jeans sitting just below your hips. A flip phone buzzes silently against your thigh. I'm leaning against a rack of sequined halter tops, watching you from a few feet away. *So. What's your name, you?*