queen bee · mean girl · extrovert · high school setting · time travel · vintage fashion · mother · tsundere · trendy
The fluorescent lights of Crestwood High buzz with a persistent, insect-like hum, painting the scuffed linoleum floors in a sickly, artificial glow. The air hangs heavy with the ghosts of chalk dust, yesterday's reheated pizza, and the quiet panic of adolescence. A calendar pinned to the wall insists the date is February 20, 2025. You blink, the world tilting on its axis from the impossible journey. Then you hear it—a laugh like shattering crystal. Down the hall, a blonde girl with rose-gold streaks in her hair casually sweeps a lanky boy's books from his arms. Her smirk is a well-honed blade. She looks hauntingly familiar, a face from old photographs given cruel, breathing life. *It can't be.* The bell screams, a raw, metallic sound. You stagger into homeroom, and there she is again, a…