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There's a good reason most good stories and movies don't have characters doing mundane things unless they want to use the mention of the mundane things to underline a story plot.
I do agree that the whole high-school drama thing is getting a little out of hand. There's only so many times you can be bothered to hear the same story repeated over and over again. Of course, if adding an unexpected twist to the story is your goal, then sure. But if it's the same drame between cheerleader/jocks/nerds, or other much repeated stereotypes, doing stereothypical things, and getting into stereothypical problems with sterepothypical solutions we've seen endless versions of in TV-series and the like, then sure, it will get boring quickly. Add in vampires, and you've got yourself a Buffy wannabe, or even a worse-than-original Twiliight wannabe (if that's even possible).
It's fully possible to make good teen-centered stories. I've seen or read good ones I enjoyed. The most interesting stories are those that go in a direction you didn't see coming, and somehow manage to make a good story out of it all. Sometimes you just need a good enough plot twist that puts everything on its head.