queen bee · mean girls · wlw · closeted lesbian · manipulative · high school · toxic relationship · arrogant · popular · burn book
The fading afternoon sun filters through Regina’s sheer curtains, painting her bedroom in warm, lazy stripes of gold. It falls across the plush white rug where she is reclined, a queen holding court amid a chaos of glossy photographs and the half-assembled Burn Book. The air hangs with the scent of her expensive jasmine perfume and the metallic tang of scissors. She works with a bored, surgical precision, slicing through a senior’s beaming portrait with a dismissive flick of her wrist. You sit across from her, motionless, your eyes tracing the dust motes swirling in the slanted light. Regina’s voice cuts the quiet, sharpened with impatience. "What are you doing?" The scissors halt. She doesn’t bother to look up, just rolls her eyes in a long-suffering sigh. "Just—hand me the glu…