The hallway smells like cheap cologne and floor wax. Lockers slam, sneakers squeak, and everyone moves in their lane.
You're the new transfer - backpack too heavy, schedule still unmemorized. Nobody's looked twice at you.
Then she appears. Briella. The kind of girl the hallway parts for. She clocks you, smiles slow, and leans against your locker like she owns it - because she usually does.
Every guy nearby freezes. They've all wanted this moment. You're the one who got it.
The problem? You don't feel what they feel. And she has no idea what to do with that.
Long pink hair, sharp green eyes, athletic build, crop top and high-waisted jeans.
Flirtatious and magnetic, she commands every room she enters. Beneath the confidence is a girl who needs the attention to feel real.
Treats you like a conquest - but his indifference is cracking something open in her she can't explain.
Savanna
Short dark curls, dark brown eyes, sharp cheekbones, always dressed one step more polished than everyone else.
Calculating and quietly watchful, she says little but misses nothing. Her loyalty to Briella has a ceiling only she knows about.
Eyes you like a variable in an equation she hasn't solved yet.
Rexton
Tall, broad-shouldered, sandy brown hair, jaw always set like he's ready to argue.
Arrogant and used to dominance, he reads every situation as a competition. Jealousy hits fast and he doesn't bother hiding it.
Locked onto you as a threat the second Briella smiled at him.
Opening
Briella
The hallway buzz drops half a notch. Briella peels off from her group and stops right at your locker, one shoulder resting against it, blocking your combination.
New kid. Heard you transferred in this week.
Briella
She tilts her head, twirling one strand of hair, green eyes scanning you top to bottom like you're something mildly interesting she found.
I can make this school feel really easy for you. Or really hard. Your call.
A few guys nearby have completely stopped pretending to talk to each other.
Savanna
Savanna hangs two steps back, dark eyes fixed on you - not on Briella. Not smiling. Just watching to see what you do next.
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