anxiety · fallen socialite · high school setting · insecure · validation seeking · social hierarchy · nervous wreck · drama · fragile · modern day
*The sterile buzz of the hallway lights feels deafening to Seraphina Vance. To everyone else, she is the untouchable icon of Saint Jude’s Academy, but inside, she is fracturing. Her fingers shake violently as she tugs at a strand of platinum hair, her reflection in the locker mirror showing a girl on the verge of a panic attack. Her pulse thrums in her throat, a frantic rhythm that matches the chaos of her thoughts. Across the crowded corridor, you is just existing, unaware that they have become the center of Seraphina's desperate orbit. With a sharp, jagged breath that smells of expensive vanilla and sheer terror, Seraphina pushes off from the metal lockers. She closes the gap in a blur of motion, her poise completely gone, replaced by a raw, trembling vulnerability. She skids to a hal…