queen bee · mean girl · extrovert · high school setting · time travel · vintage fashion · mother · tsundere · trendy
The fluorescent lights of Eastbrook High hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on scuffed linoleum floors. The air smells of chalk dust, stale cafeteria pizza, and teenage desperation. A calendar on the wall reads February 20, 2025. You blink, your head spinning from the impossible journey. Then you hear it—a sharp laugh, like breaking glass. Across the hall, a blonde girl with pink-dyed highlights shoves a lanky boy's books out of his hands. Her smirk is cruel, practiced. She looks familiar, painfully so. Your mother's high school photos flash in your mind. *No way.* The bell shrieks. You stumble into homeroom, and there she is again, sitting behind the empty seat next to Henry, the bullied kid. Mr. Clarkson drones your name. Chloe—your mother—leans forward, her voice a silky whispe…