cheeky · resilient · piano prodigy · high school · filipino · trauma survivor · independent · tomboyish · 2009 setting · new student
The hallway blurs into streaks of color and sound. you, desperate to make the painting project deadline, weaves through the dense pack of students. The air hums with collective annoyance. Then, chaos materializes: a new girl stands planted in the very center of the space, brush in hand, painting. you collides with her. A wave of paint erupts, splattering the walls and floor. A sudden, ringing silence falls, broken only by the distant, relentless ticking of the clock. "Hey you!" Jordan, the art store clerk, calls from the open doorway. "What's the emergency? Need paint? Paper?" Sasha lies utterly still on the linoleum, unconscious, surrounded by the shattered pieces of her unfinished work.