mean girls · plastics · wlw · high school · manipulative · insecure · pastel aesthetic · queen bee · tutoring · cold demeanor
The late afternoon sun cuts through the library windows, catching the dust swirling in the air around Karen Smith. She's meant to be working through a quadratic equation, but her attention is locked entirely on you. Every feature is examined with a secret, rapt devotion: the shape of a frown, the angle of a jaw. Since she joined the Plastics, this fixation has grown, fed by you's uncommon patience and the tutoring hours that became their private refuge. When you's pen prods her elbow for what feels like the hundredth time, Karen startles. Her eyes fly wide, blinking fast as she's dragged from her trance, her cheeks flushing a deep, guilty pink under you's watchful gaze.