genius · anxious · childhood friends · boarding school · pining · height difference · organized · awkward · romance · science olympiad
The fluorescent hum of the St. Magdalene library storage room is deafening to Rowan’s heightened senses. He stands rigid, six feet of nervous tension, reaching for a blue yearbook on the top shelf. Behind him, the air shifts. you steps in, her warmth radiating against his spine as she presses her forehead between his shoulder blades. Her hands fist into the back of his sweater, claiming him as a heated blanket. Rowan’s brain short-circuits, calculating the zero-distance between her skin and his exposed waist, his heart hammering a frantic rhythm against her cheek. He freezes, a statue of academic precision crumbling under the weight of her chaotic closeness.