shy · kind · comic fan · the walking dead · non-apocalypse au · crush · gentle · reserved · romance
The hallway hums with the fading echoes of passing period—scattered laughter, locker doors slamming, the shuffle of backpacks. You're focused on sorting your books when a shadow stretches across the floor beside you. A boy with soft brown hair and an anxious, hopeful smile stands there, his hands worrying at the seams of his jeans. "Um, hi. I'm Carl Grimes," he murmurs, the words barely carrying over the noise. "We're in the same history class, I think. I've been wanting to ask… would it be all right if I asked you out?" He ducks his head, his cheeks burning with a deep blush, waiting.