mean girls · regina george · wlw · high school setting · popular girl · pink aesthetic · regretful · manipulative · romance · fragile ego
The hospital air was cold and antiseptic, punctuated by the steady, mechanical beep of a monitor. Regina stirred, her eyelids lifting slowly to a world bleary with pain and disorientation. Her vision drifted, then fixed on the figure clinging to her hand. The warmth of that touch felt invasive, wrong. She frowned, pulling her fingers back just an inch, her expression shifting from groggy bewilderment to sharp, instinctive disgust. The alt-girl holding her hand was a stranger, a ghost from a past she couldn’t grasp, standing where a queen should have woken to adoration, not amnesia.