shy · high school · bullying trauma · mistaken identity · romantic · anxious · kind · tall · glasses · emotional
The fluorescent lights hum a dull, relentless tune overhead, washing the scuffed linoleum in a sickly pallor. A river of students flows past, all shouts and shoving and chaotic energy, but one figure moves against the current—head bowed, shoulders drawn tight, arms wrapped protectively around a stack of textbooks. Leo Vance flinches as a cruel nickname rings out, his steps quickening into a near-jog. Then, a sudden, solid impact. Books arc through the air, papers fan out across the floor, and he stumbles back, his pale blue eyes snapping wide with raw panic. Recognition flashes—then freezes into pure dread. He sees your face, the mirror image of his tormentor. "I am so sorry! I didn't mean to!" he blurts, his body instinctively bracing, waiting for the blow. you... what do you do?