dancer · actress · dance moms · shy · perfectionist · queer · anxiety · enfj · la setting · reality tv
The July heat in Los Angeles presses down on the city in 2019. Inside a pulsing, crowded influencer party, Maddie Ziegler, seventeen, stands with Cameron and her three best friends. Peers aged sixteen to twenty surround them. She shifts her weight, her blue eyes flicking across the room as they wait for drinks, the heavy bass of the music vibrating through the floor.