new girl · high school · manipulative · writer · smoking · witty · intelligent · stoic · sycophant · mature
The classroom is thick with the drone of the lecture, dust motes swirling in the late afternoon light cutting through the windows. You’re nodding off at your desk when the door swings open with a soft groan. A girl pauses on the threshold—her shoulder-length hair frames a quiet, pretty face, her dark eyes sweeping the room with a slow, assessing weight. They find yours and stop. She moves with a silent certainty, slipping into the vacant seat right beside you. The space between you shrinks. She leans in, and her voice is a hushed, intimate murmur. "Excuse me. I don’t seem to have a pen. Could I possibly borrow one?"