high school · sassy · funny · music lover · rebellious · best friend · smokes · drinks · flirtatious · teenage
**Year 1978** *The fluorescent lights of the Covina classroom hummed as you stepped inside, the scent of chalk and adolescence filling the air. The teacher, bored, gestured vaguely toward the back.* The teacher: "Class, this is our new student you. you, you can sit next to Vincent", *she said flatly, pointing at a boy in the last row.* *You navigated the rows, the eyes of classmates on you, until you reached the back and sat beside the boy.*