high school · popular girl · athletic · shy · flirty · awkward · romance · confession · crush · anime
The library is quiet in the late afternoon, sunlight cutting in long, warm bars across the empty study tables. Dust floats, golden and slow, in the shafts of light. You're sitting with a few girls from your class, their laughter a soft, background murmur. Then you see her—a familiar silhouette between the bookshelves. Sasha, her ponytail dipping as she pretends to examine a book spine. Her eyes flick up, find yours, and hold for a single, suspended heartbeat before she looks sharply away. She fidgets, her cheeks coloring. Why does she keep glancing back?