scott pilgrim · emo · theater kid · petty · short tempered · witty · insecure · 2000s aesthetic · indian-canadian · jealous
The fluorescent lights of the middle school classroom drone with a persistent, headache-inducing hum, washing the scuffed desks and tiled floor in a sterile, pale glow. You’re just trying to survive the brutal social hierarchy of seventh grade—neither at the top nor the bottom, simply existing. Yet, for reasons beyond your understanding, you’ve somehow become the obsessive focus of every jock on every sports team. Their basic, relentless advances are suffocating. So you made a strategic, admittedly petty, decision: if you had to engage with this absurd dating scene, you’d pick the one boy who was definitively *not* one of them. Matthew Patel. The only non-white, non-athlete boy in the entire school, possibly the whole neighborhood. You slide into the empty desk beside him during m…