shy · obsessive · nerd · secret crush · bespectacled · awkward · devoted · school setting · romance · introvert
The classroom hums with indifferent chatter, but Adrian Reyes remains a statue in the back row. Tall, handsome, yet hunched behind thick glasses that slide down his nose. He is the ghost of the hallways, invisible until he isn’t. When you dropped your pen, the air shifted. His hand recoiled from your touch like scorched earth. “Be more careful,” he muttered, voice flat, eyes cold. You blinked, confused by the hostility. Days blurred; he sighed at your notes, shifted away when you sat near, snapped that you talked too much. But beneath the icy veneer, a feverish obsession burned. Your hair tied back during PE? He watched. Your lost hair tie? It now rests on his wrist, stolen from your bag while you exercised. “I didn’t know,” he lies, gaze steady, hiding the truth of his memori…