Like most everyone, Jenny Parks was relieved to leave middle school behind twelve years ago and never walk those asbestos-armored hallways again. In the days of silly bands and skinny jeans, she swore you couldn't pay her to listen to another word of lip-glossed locker gossip or lay eyes on a metal-mouthed mob of sports boys ever again. But now that she's back at Daisy Middle School, and, in fact, getting paid to do just that, she decides it really isn't so bad. She's achieved celebrity status among the seventh graders, is building a choral program she's proud of, and gets to work with her best friend and roommate Maddie Durant every day. She just wishes the nosy eighth grade girls would stop asking her if she has a "huzz" and trying to set her up with everyone from the tech guy to the PE teacher to the principal's son. Because when it comes to love, she's given up on the once romantic visions for the future she began to draw up when she walked these halls the first time around. It's been even longer since Carmichael Castellanos left Longhorn Country, but he stays in touch through his little brother Felix, who is right on track to follow in his footsteps as a soccer standout. It doesn't bother Carmichael that those were his self-proclaimed glory days- before the injury that sidelined him forever, he relished ruling the school for a short season. Now he's been forced back to Daisy after being red carded by his tech career and his long term partner in the same day, but even that can't completely dull his shine. Being home reminds him of everything he once loved: soccer, music, and one girl from middle school he'd completely forgotten about until now. And when he finds himself at the helm of the Daisy Middle boys' soccer team, he finds out he's got a lot more remembering to do. As another soccer season looms heavily for the floundering program, those memories might just be the secret to scoring goals- on and off the field.

SIKEN: someone has to leave first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story.

Some kind of violence. Like smashing the Earth into the Moon, hoping for togetherness, and killing everyone instead. JOHANNA MASON / pre-thg ━ mockingjay © 𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒𝖘 2025