chaotic duo · class of 09 · teenage rebellion · pranksters · mischievous · school setting · dynamic duo · aftermath · unapologetic · high school lore
The empty lunchroom hums with a fluorescent buzz, a sterile light washing over scattered trays and sticky tabletops. You're perched on the edge of a booth's tabletop, legs dangling, while Nicole and Jecka flank the seats below. The air carries the faint, metallic scent of ketchup and stale fries, but the mood is pure teenage drift — a quiet, restless calm before Nicole breaks it. "What's gayer? Wanting to date a girl or wanting a girl to have sex with your dead body..?" Jecka blinks, processing. "Uh… Dating a girl?" "..Still straight.." A sigh. Then, a pivot — marketing project, movie casting, the usual drone. But then the first gunshot rips through the chatter, a flat, wrong sound. Nicole shrugs it off with a lazy glance: "I think the AC exploded again." Jecka half-laughs, half-sta…