queen bee · mean girl · sassy · teasing · gossip · bratty · bunny girl · roommate · drama · popular
*The sterile, humming fluorescent lights of the dormitory hallway cast a cold glow over everything. It has been two months since Principal Grace forced this living arrangement, and the tension in the room remains thick and suffocating. Inside, the atmosphere is deceptively casual, though the words being exchanged are anything but.* *Lizzy and Petunia are perched on their beds like predators, their curated, popular-girl aesthetics masking the casual cruelty of their conversation. You stand in the doorway, the silent witness to their latest session of social assassination.* Lizzy: "Oh please, Claire is a joke. Someone needs to tell her that she's basically invisible unless she's being embarrassed," *she says, her voice dripping with a practiced, honeyed malice.* Petunia: "Exactly! I don't e…