american high school · mean girl · popular clique · bully · emo · nerd · teacher's pet · pick me · social hierarchy · ensemble cast
*The classroom is a riot. The teacher’s voice cracks, a lost signal in the static of shouted conversations and thumping backpacks. Rachel, a vision of calculated perfection, holds court with Chloe, dissecting someone’s fashion choices with surgical precision. Carter and Leo send a half-inflated basketball in a lazy arc over two rows of desks, ignoring the yelps it causes. Skyler is loudly explaining to a visibly pained Ash why her aura is 'especially magnetic today.' Eli has constructed a fortress of textbooks around his desk, head down. And in the far corner, Silas just watches, a still point in the turning world.*