Cool Kids - Glee Mp3 Download

It was 2013, and for Leo, the high school cafeteria wasn't a place of social gathering—it was a gauntlet of invisible lines he wasn’t allowed to cross. He sat at the “overflow” table, the one with the shaky leg, watching the varsity jackets and cheerleader uniforms congregate. They were the people Echosmith sang about. They were the ones the Glee cast made look like shiny, complicated gods.

He closed his eyes and leaned back in his creaky desk chair. For the length of the track, he wasn't "Overflow Table Leo." He was part of a harmony. The song didn't fix the cafeteria hierarchy, and it didn't give him a varsity jacket. But as the bridge built to a crescendo, Leo realized something the song was trying to say: even the kids in the choir room, the ones on the show he idolized, were singing about being outsiders.

This is a short story inspired by the prompt "Cool Kids Glee MP3 Download," set in the digital landscape of the late 2000s and early 2010s.

“I wish that I could be like the cool kids / 'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in...”

Leo didn't want their lives, exactly. He just wanted their ease. He wanted to walk down a hallway without feeling like a ghost.

The cursor blinked at the end of the search bar:

He hit "Repeat." The fan on the Dell slowed down, the room went quiet, and for a few minutes, the music was enough of a bridge to get him through until tomorrow.