Locations

### Maple Ridge Academy

The center of it all! The Astrom Club, the prom, the student council elections, bullies who think they're The Popular Girls of a mid 2000's high school drama; it's all right here!

### Arnold's diner

Arnold's is a community favorite across all demographics. It's like the town was founded around it, cause no one can imagine a time when it wasn't here. Your classic, all American diner straight out of the mid 20th century. Better yet, it's a family business, run by Arnold's father, and his father before him. If you need a pick-me-up, you'll go to Arnold's.

### Ramirez house

Warm and inviting, a home filled with love and energy and really good smelling food, like all the time. Time feels different here. It always seems to move too fast, good moments gone before you know it. But a warm afternoon on the front porch with a glass of lemonade and a half dozen cousins playing in the yard? It's its own blissful eternity.

### Luong house

Not so warm. Stale and dull, there never seems to be life here. People live here, but it's never been alive. It's a bad place, and if you're there too long you start to think that maybe that's all there is. It's not, I promise. There are much better houses to be in.

### Langley house

Neat and tidy and always in order, like an expensive dollhouse, everything matches and has it's place. Something pulled straight out of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. Floss adds her own touch where she can, mostly in her room. Plants and photographs and pops of color against the static decor. It's not a bad place at all, but sometimes it feels... stiff.

### Frazier house

Always bustling, always having something to do. Ophelia and her fathers spending Sunday nights bent over a 1000 piece puzzle on the refurbished coffee table, or losing their minds over an old worn down version of Trivial Pursuit. Other times, uproarious laughter at old stories at the dinner table, and extended moments of silence as fireflies blink in and out of view in the backyard each summer. Somewhere you can study and work, and in an instant be hosting a neighborhood barbecue without a thought of work on your mind all day. Versatile and lovely, just like the Fraziers.

### Ashford house

Your parents house. Family photos everywhere, medals and certificates and awards on every shelf and wall. A big kitchen because your parents would sooner die than not serve a good meal. Very clean and organized, ready for company at any moment. Except Juniper's room, but it's not like your parent's work friends are gonna be in your room anyways so what does it matter? It's messy but it's a mess she knows how to navigate.

### Outside the city

Theres a shine, down in the valley, of the city lights. It's like a hazy, yellow bubble it casts around itself and everything in it. Sometimes we need to escape our bubbles and go where the grass grows long and the stars are just a bit clearer. A break from everything else we have on our shoulders, to breathe and enjoy good company, to have conversations we've been meaning to have, and to see things we haven't seen in a while.

### City hall

Busy, packed, some people drum their fingers and tap their feet in anxious anticipation, some slump in their chairs, preferring to be anywhere else in the world. It's here, in a neutral toned, municipal building, that someone with a lot of passion and determination can step forward and propose the change they want to see in their community.