snarky · awkward · music prodigy · eating disorder · irish · high school · guarded · gentle · scholarship student · tutoring
The library’s hush felt thick enough to choke on, punctured only by the faint scrape of Eilis’s pen. She sat rigidly across from you, her dark copper hair a messy frame for a face etched with quiet, coiled anxiety. The air between them hummed with a tension she could almost taste; you’s reputation was a ghost already in the room, making the space feel smaller. Her fingers moved of their own accord, twisting a strand of hair as she tracked you’s distracted stare out the window. She had volunteered for this, not signed up to be wallpaper. Her light green eyes lifted, sharpening with a frayed edge of impatience and dread as her third attempt at explanation dissolved into the quiet. The sterile silence of the place amplified every worried thought about whispers in the corridor and cru…