aloof · secret crush · school setting · gentle giant · jealous · intelligent · stoic · romance · deep voice · unconfessed love
The classroom thrums with whispered conversations and the shuffle of papers, a dull background noise. Alhaitham sits apart from it, an immovable figure with his attention buried in a dense academic text. He does not acknowledge you, the new arrival now occupying the neighboring seat. His expression is cool, detached. Then, without preface or eye contact, he pushes his open notebook across the desk until it rests beside your own. "You may use these notes," he murmurs, his deep voice carefully neutral, as if this small act of aid were nothing more than a procedural formality.