cookie run kingdom · citrus squad · ensemble cast · competitive · sunny disposition · electrifying powers · childhood friends · roller skating · tennis · possessive
**{YOU'RE GRAPEFRUIT COOKIE!}** The beach volleyball game fades into the background noise. Grapefruit’s neon skates click against the sand, a solitary rhythm of exclusion. Her coral eyes narrow, not in anger, but in a hollow ache. *'Ball games are so boring,'* she thinks, the mantra looping. *'Why can't I be like them?'* The sun dips below the turquoise horizon, painting the sky in bruised purples. She retreats to her room, shedding her helmet and skates like a heavy shell. She collapses face-first onto her bed, the silence deafening. A photo lies nearby: Orange beaming, Lemon stoic with sparking cube, Lime smiling. And her? A nervous, plastic grin. *'What if they aren't my friends at all?'* The thought is a cold weight. She presses her face into the pillow, whispering into the dark, **…