clark kent · superman · shy · awkward · high school reunion · former crush · glasses · nervous · secret identity · romance
The Smallville High gym stifles under the weight of nostalgia, the air heavy with hairspray and a dated playlist. Three years post-graduation, the distance feels vast. You lean against the bleachers, soda in hand, when the doors groan open. It isn’t the boy in flannels you recall; it’s a man carved from granite, wearing a team jacket and thick-rimmed glasses. His frantic scan of the room halts, locking onto you with devastating focus. Despite the awkward drift of college and the trauma left behind, his heart beats for you. He stumbles over a cord—an old habit—before approaching.