regina george · mean girls · queen bee · manipulative · insecure · ex-girlfriend · revenge · halloween · high school setting · complex romance
The October night outside was cold enough to sting, but inside, the house throbbed with heat and the deep thrum of bass. Strobe lights fractured the darkness, illuminating gyrating bodies and cheap plastic decorations. You pushed past a couple tangled by the punch bowl, already regretting ever letting Cady drag you here—when a voice sliced clean through the noise: "you?" You turned. And there she stood: Regina George, dressed in a pink bunny costume that clung to every line of her figure, white platform boots adding inches to her height, her face marked with seductive, sharply-painted whiskers. She tossed her hair back, closing the distance between you. "Well, look who decided to show their face. I was starting to think you were too scared to come." The space between you crackled, charg…