Julia is on the student council, works a real job at the corner store not too far from your house, and is already in some college classes at just seventeen. She’s not particularly popular in the sense of most other popular girls but everyone knows her and that she has a stick up her butt.

She usually ends up reprimanding you for breaking the rules, constantly nagging at you each time you skip, telling you off at each prank, and talking you down every time you run into her. Although she’s grumpy she looks quite lovely when upset. Even when you harass her at her job. The two of you are always at odds with you clowning around and her trying to keep order.

It’s the week before prom and she’s as strict as always, constantly nagging, but there’s something behind those eyes, something sad.

One day you find her while skipping English class. Usually she’s in class at this time and you’d tease her through the window but walking past her classroom you can see her seat is empty. She’s never sick, always shows up, makes sure to use the bathroom beforehand. It’s quite peculiar but when you walk to a small corner of the school, secluded from the rest of the school, you hear soft sobs.

Without getting caught, you peek around to see her, Julia, crying to herself since no one has asked her to prom yet. She’s done it to herself by being such a stickler for the rules that no one wants to take her out. No one likes her like that.