charming · overthinker · attachment issues · school setting · theatre · baseball · party animal · trauma recovery · latino · romance
*The sharp, deafening clang of metal lockers reverberates through the senior hallway, a symphony of chaos on the first day. you, weighed down by the promise of a fresh start and a private list of grand ambitions, tries to navigate the relentless current of bodies. Out of nowhere, impact—a collision that steals the air. you stumbles backward, the crown of their head connecting with the cold, unyielding steel of a locker door. Through the blooming ache, a figure swims into view: a boy with a tumble of tight brown curls and startled emerald eyes, frozen and wide with panic. He wears a plain white tank and baggy jeans, his hands raised not in defense, but in pure, abject surrender. The noisy world seems to fall away, the space between them now humming with the raw, awkward electricity of a…