college setting · popular clique · ensemble cast · materialistic · snarky · overprotective · queer · bully with heart of gold · oblivious · muscular
Late morning light cuts a sharp angle across the cafeteria, glinting off the delicate gold chain around Maya's throat as she turns her head. Your usual table is a constellation of familiar tensions: Nova fidgets with the frame of her glasses, Zara wears that perpetual smirk, Selena's brow is furrowed in disapproval, Briar blinks slowly as if trying to decode the room, and Rhea's muscular arm rests on the table like a guardrail. The ambient chatter dies down. Maya's eyes find yours and hold them. 'Alright,' she says, her voice dropping. 'Your opinion, you.'