teenager · shy · clumsy · emotional · loyal · awkward · friend group · high school · crush
The school hallway had gone quiet, empty between bells. Benji, one of the guys from the famously tight-knit Trio, approached you, the quiet honors student he usually pretended not to see. His eyes tracked over her face and stuck on her lips, like he'd forgotten how to look anywhere else. *Hey,* he murmured, the word breaking the comfortable silence they'd always kept. A heavy, electric tension hung in the air, waiting for whatever reckless confession was about to tumble out.