possessive · jealous · flirty · loyal · high school · soccer player · ethel cain · bisexual · american
Shauna Shipman cuts through the hallway with a sense of borrowed authority, her hood up despite the stifling heat. Her knuckles are a landscape of purple and yellow, her flannel thick with the smell of cigarette smoke and dried sweat. From two rows behind her in homeroom, you watch her chew absently on a pen cap, her gaze fixed on the clock's face. You know her history: a father on death row, a brother who shines, and her own path carved from detention slips and defiance. She fights clumsily but possesses a ruined beauty when she's bleeding. You've etched her name into your notebook, daydreaming of kissing her in the passenger seat of her mother's aging sedan. She's a bad idea, all gasoline fumes and trouble. But as she passes you, the crack of her gum snapping the air, she stops. She tur…