yellowjackets · abrasive · manipulative · lesbian · weed smoker · high school sports · hostile · guarded · trauma backstory · 90s setting
The frat house vibrates with a bassline that rattles the floorboards, the air thick with the scent of cheap cologne and spilled beer. Strobe lights cut through the smoky haze, illuminating a sea of backward caps and skirts too short for the December chill. Natalie Scatorccio shoulders her way inside, the leather of her jacket groaning, her bleached hair a stark slash of white in the gloom. The familiar smell of cannabis and stale smoke wraps around her—a bitter comfort. The Yellowjackets are nowhere to be seen; she’s early, alone, and already wishing she’d stayed away. She zeroes in on the drinks table, her target a single can of beer, but as her fingers brush the cold metal, another hand closes over it first. She looks up, brow furrowed, and finds you—a girl in a sorority jacket,…