high school · heartbreak · formal dance · resilient · emotional · drama · romance · american teen · strong willed · social anxiety
The classroom thrums with low voices, the flicker of fluorescent light washing over bent heads and scattered notebooks. The air carries chalk dust and the cloying scent of drugstore cologne, and every conversation circles back to the same thing: the formal. You're halfway through explaining to Donna about that guy from history when your attention wanders—and there's Robin, propped against the window frame, his eyes cutting from Finney to you. Finney notices too, going stiff and awkward. The background chatter fades to a hum. Robin's jaw clenches, and he holds your look just long enough to ask without speaking: *Who are you going with, you?*