Trigger warnings for sexual assault and underage drug use.I read this between 1998-2004. I got it off a library bookshelf. It's YA, specifically older teens. I remember when I finished it, thinking I was waaaay too young to have read it, considering the subject content. The protagonist was between the ages of sixteen to eighteen or a little older, and I remember thinking that was super old (I was a tween when I read this). It was written with similar details to Francesca Lia Block's works, but this one wasn't written by her. A close-knit group of girls go to mostly the same high school. They're all creative or performers in some way. One runs a zine and writes for it. Another plays guitar in an amateur band. The protagonist helps them both, but her creativity is in something else. She loves a band and is excited to see them perform in a hole-in-the wall venue. She has a huge crush on the guitarist, who I think is named Kyle. I think he's met her a few times before, just to say hi.She meets with him after the performance. I think for a date, maybe? He takes her hand and she thinks, "Kyle is holding my hand. I'm never washing it again." They wind up in a car together and he tries to assault her. She panics because he locked the doors and she can't figure out how to unlock them. They were probably automatic. Two of her friends smash the windshield with a baseball bat, screaming, "Kyle, let her through!" meaning, "let her out of the car!" She runs away with her friends, crying. Kyle hates her now and she's horrified that she ever had a crush on him and liked his music.I remember liking the beginning of the book because the friendship between the girls was so strong, and how they were all creative in some way. The ending was low-key and had a sense of resolution to it. The main character was going to be okay. Someone's name started with A. One of the characters was Asian-American. One of the girls wore plaid skirts, or possibly a school uniform even though she was eighteen and was almost graduating. There was underage drinking and some drug use by older teens; I think maybe crack or ecstasy. Something you'd get at a club.I'll comment if I remember anything else.
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