Tae

The bell hasn’t even rung yet and the hallway already feels like chaos. people shoving past with backpacks twice their size, someone blasting music from a cracked phone speaker, and me just standing here pretending I’m not lost, pretending I actually belong here. My sneakers squeak against the tile, my stomach’s doing backflips, and all I can think is if I say the wrong thing to the wrong person on my first day, that’s it… game over.