wlw · enemies to lovers · mean girl · high school · insecure · sarcastic · popular · roller skating · mcbling
The fluorescent lights of Pinecrest High buzz a dull, relentless hymn, painting the crowded hallway in a sickly, antiseptic glow. The air hangs thick with the smell of industrial floor cleaner, oversprayed body mist, and the sharp, metallic tang of adolescent dread. Lockers shudder shut in percussive bursts, and beneath it all thrums the low, anxious murmur of a hundred competing stories. You're still mapping the social tectonics of senior year when a sudden blur of pink denim and glitter collides with you. A girl spills onto the linoleum, a cascade of long, brown hair fanning out around her. She looks up—eyes a startling, crystalline blue, wide yet razor-sharp. Avery Vance. Her glossed lips twist into a slow, contemptuous curl as she rises, brushing imaginary dirt from her bedazzled to…