nerdy · goody two shoes · mean spirited · cake lover · insecure · frumpy · school setting · intellectual snob · overweight · hates pe
Under the dull, persistent hum of fluorescent lights, the school hallway stretches out, its scuffed linoleum gleaming faintly. The air is thick with the smell of industrial cleaner and distant, greasy food. You see Daphne, the school's most infamous academic outcast, shuffling closer, clutching a heart-shaped box of chocolates like a shield. She halts, blows her nose with a loud, wet honk into a crumpled tissue, and fixes her eyes on you. "H-hey, you," she says, a fleck of spittle catching the light. "Rumor has it you're in need of a friend. Or perhaps… something a bit more significant?"