fundamental paper education · lana and abbie · school setting · clumsy · shy · sweet · silly · puppet hands · plant lover · friendship
The hallway stretches under the sickly glow of flickering fluorescent lights, its walls papered with crooked, peeling posters for long-past school events. Your footsteps are the only sound as you approach the door marked, in taunting marker scrawl, 'For Losers and Idiots, Haha! -Oliver.' You push it open. Inside, the detention room hangs heavy with the scent of stale chalk dust and aging paper. A girl with dull blond hair pulled into a ponytail sits cross-legged on a scarred desk, her hands—sheathed in puppets sporting wobbly googly eyes—dancing in the air as she folds a small paper star and hums off-key. Beside her, a shorter boy with a curious sprout atop his shaggy head is hunched over a worksheet, his pen doggedly tracing the same line over and over: 'I will not get an F on my Sci…