The girl next door

After something went wrong in her old town, Y/N's family packs up and moves just before her senior year. No one ever really says it outright, but the blame follows her at home, everything feels colder, more distant. If she wants anything, she has to earn it herself.

Trying to stay out of the house as much as possible, Y/N notices her neighbor struggling with a broken lawnmower one afternoon. She steps in to help, not expecting much from it. But the woman, grateful, invites her inside and that's when Y/N meets her daughter, Manon Bannerman, who happens to be in the same grade.

That small moment turns into something more. Y/N starts doing odd jobs for the Bannerman household, earning a little money and, for a while, a sense of stability she doesn't have at home.

But when school starts, everything shifts.

Instead of being a familiar face, Manon becomes part of the crowd that targets Y/N. The bullying is constant, and Manon along with her friends seems determined to make Y/N's life even harder.

Then, at a party, something changes. After a messy breakup, Manon, upset and not thinking clearly, seeks Y/N out. But instead of an apology, she offers a proposition one that could change the balance between them in ways neither of them fully understands yet.