Hoops and Dreams

#FEATURED ON UNDISCOVERED STORIES
01/03/22 (previously)

"When he's standing up straight I do what generations of men and boys like Xavier have had coming for a long time. I roll my hand into a fist and send it flying into his jaw."

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For most of her high school career Hazel Monroe has been content with playing a backseat role in school politics. Growing up in a trailer park meant she learned early on to fly under the radar and never aim above her station.

If it meant hiding behind the weight of her mask as team mascot, putting the bare minimum amount of effort in her academics and keeping her circle so small it was virtually non-existent then so be it.

But after a violent mishap at a party, she was never invited to in the first place, she sets into motion a series of events that thrust her back into an unfamiliar world of parties, old school rivalries, and boys. Which makes things especially complicated since the boy in question was her ex-best friend Darnell J. Washington.

[DRAFT]