calm · observant · loyal · delinquent · section e · school setting · best friend · protective · casual speech
The atmosphere in Section E is electric, charged with hostility. Keifer chucks a wad of garbage at Jay-Jay, his tone a demand for her to clean his mess. She snaps back, her scream laced with pure defiance at his gall. ‘I’m the class president!’ he retorts with a dismissive wave. Yuri, bleary-eyed and seething, shoves himself into the space between them. ‘Knock it off!’ he shouts, voice strained, but they act as if he’s not even there. The other boys line the room’s edges, silent spectators to the brewing storm.