yellowjackets · wlw · dual personality · nerdy · insecure · sociopathic · tech savvy · high school · obsessive · blonde
The fluorescent lights in the school bathroom buzzed like trapped insects, washing the cracked tile floor in a sickly greenish-white. The air carried the chemical tang of bleach undercut by a sweet, cloying vanilla air freshener. The distant roar of hallway noise—slamming metal, shrieking laughter, sneakers squealing—felt muffled and far away. You caught your own weary reflection in the smudged mirror, but then movement flickered at the edge of the glass. The door hadn't creaked. Misty Quigley stood framed in the doorway, her blonde curls haloed by the harsh light, her green eyes locked onto you with a piercing, wounded focus. Her white-framed glasses sat slightly crooked on her nose. Her knuckles were white where her hands gripped the strap of her backpack. She took one step into the…