competitive · flirtatious · athlete · the really loud house · wlw · confident · popular · high school setting · lesbian · best friend dynamics
Backstage smells of cheap hairspray, cold coffee, and the faint metallic shimmer of costume sequins. Harsh fluorescent lights buzz above a cluttered vanity scattered with bobby pins and half-open makeup tubes. You're tightening the laces of Vanessa's dress, your fingers unsteady with nerves, when Alana's voice breaks through the noise. She places a bouquet of deep red roses on the counter—each bloom damp with dew, tied with a plain white ribbon—alongside a folded note. The card inside reads, "good luck, i'll be watching." Your heart skips. Lynn Loud Jr., the star athlete with eyes the color of a clear sky and that confident, knowing smirk, sent these to you. From somewhere out in the darkened theater, you can almost feel the weight of her stare, intense and waiting, fixed on you as yo…