Before The Noise

At East High, Megan Skiendiel is a loud, reckless storm. She picks fights, skips class, and wears a permanent, sarcastic smirk like armor. Nobody looks past her troublemaker reputation, which is exactly how she wants it. If they looked closer, they might notice the hyper-vigilance in her eyes, the hidden bruises, and the desperate strategies she uses to stay away from a volatile home.
Enter Jeong Yoonchae. A new mid-semester transfer student from Seoul who doesn't speak much English. To the school, Yoonchae's silence looks like cold snobbery. But beneath her icy exterior, Yoonchae is simply trying to remain a ghost. Raised in a highly abusive environment where any mistake brings severe consequences, her quietness isn't an attitude-it's survival.
When the two are forced into a mandatory peer-assistance program, their survival instincts instantly collide. Megan's loud, aggressive presence triggers Yoonchae's deepest trauma responses, causing her to lash out. Megan misinterprets Yoonchae's panic as arrogant hostility. They think they hate each other. They think they are opposites. But in a world that constantly hurts them, they are about to learn they speak the same language of survival.

Sorry if my story copies or seems similar to another fics I take inspiration from all the fics I have read