Matilda 'Dixie' Green, who gets dragged into the unfathomable events at Starcourt Mall by her hopeless crush on Billy Hargrove and new-found middle-schooler friends. She struggles to cope with the trauma, which gradually costs her, her popular cheer...
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𐮚 Prologue 𐮙
༒September, 198𝟐
"Matilda, over here!" Rebecca, Matilda's older sister called out from the middle table of the cafeteria, her voice standing out amongst the mumbles of the large room. Her confidence shone in her voice, not caring about her surroundings.
It was Matilda's first day at high school, September 8th, 1982. To jumping swiftly out of her sister's silver Ford Sierra and roaming the corridors, to finding her way to her first class, Matilda immediately noticed the difference between middle and high school - everyone was taller, older students were walking around like they owned the place... it was also a maze.
Matilda took a quick look around the cafeteria, she could see that everyone was split based on their interests, reputation - one group were wearing matching t-shirts with 'Hellfire Club' written on them. Matilda was most curious about that table, the 'Hellfire' table, she noticed a boy with short-ish dark curly hair, he seemed familiar to her.
"Are you coming or what, Matilda?" Rebecca called again, playfully shaking her head.
The loud sound of Rebecca's voice distracting Matilda from her thoughts as she looked at the boy at the 'Hellfire' table - she shook her head and realised that she hadn't been the only one who'd been alerted by the sound of Rebecca's voice, the boy had been too... but he wasn't looking at Rebecca, he was looking at her, probably because he'd seen her staring and figured he was to blame for stopping Matilda in her tracks - he looked... petrified, his eyes were wide... he was questioning her looking at him, also thinking 'don't look at me, don't bring unwanted attention to me'.
"Yeah, I'm coming," Matilda became flustered, she shook her head half-heartedly before joining her sister at the table of cheerleaders and jocks.
Rebecca was sat next to her boyfriend, Alex, who she'd been friends with from the beginning of middle school - they started dating in their freshman year of high school and had been together since, now they were both starting junior year together, happy as ever - they were the perfect couple and most of the female students swooned over their relationship or were jealous of it - it led to a perfect reputation for them in high school and in the middle school.
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