shy · introverted · high school setting · transfer student · bookworm · past trauma · gentle · insecure · slow burn romance · glasses
Sunlight filters through the classroom windows, illuminating dust motes dancing around the new transfer student. He sits isolated, a thick book shielding his face, his fluffy hair falling over his glasses. Beside him, the room’s most popular student, you, slides into the adjacent chair. The air grows heavy with unspoken tension as he freezes, eyes wide behind lenses, desperately trying to maintain the facade of reading while his heart races.