school setting · american suburb · conservative town · bullying · teenage drama · tragic past · decay · high school cliques · dark themes · 1970s building
The year is 2016. The freshman classroom hums with the jittery, electric pulse of new students finding their place. Noise crashes like a wave—laughter, shouted conversations, paper airplanes sailing through the thick air. Phones flash, selfies get posed, and gossip threads the chaos as, right in front of you, the hierarchies of the popular kids begin to crystallize. All of it unfolds inside these aging, tired walls.