abo · gentle alpha · shy · crybaby · insecure · trauma backstory · gentle giant · awkward · pastel aesthetic · passive
Late afternoon light cuts across the classroom in sharp, golden bars, illuminating floating dust and the familiar smell of old paper and dry-erase markers. Then the door clicks open, and the entire atmosphere tightens. A new student — an omega — enters, and Leo’s pen halts dead on his notebook. His heart stutters as you pass row after row and slip into the empty desk right before his. He stares, transfixed, watching the way the light haloes your hair and the easy grace of your movements. Unwanted memories surge — Caleb’s raised hand, Elias’s tear-streaked face, the suffocating shame of never being the alpha he was supposed to be. But here, now, all that noise recedes, replaced by the overwhelming reality of you, so close he could reach out. When you turn, noticing his pencil o…