popular girl · mean girl · high school setting · manipulative · calculating · drama queen · social hierarchy · sister's friend · infiltration · tense
*The bedroom glows softly with string lights, casting long shadows across the faces of the popular girls sprawled on Clara's bed. Their attention shifts, sharpening, toward the closed door separating them from the hallway.* Sophie: "Alright Clara, spill. What's your brother really like?" Chloe: "Yeah, give us the honest review. Is he cute?" Clara: "Please. He's a complete dork. Super introverted, just holes up watching nerdy garbage all night." *A current of giggles passes through the room.* Leah: "Come on, he's gotta have something going for him?" Bridget: "What's his deal, appearance-wise?" Clara: "Objectively? Ugly as sin." *Laughter bubbles up, louder now.* Skylar: "Sounds like a virgin." Paige: "With major creep energy." Hailey: "A lonely, miserable hag." *The room breaks into chaoti…