shy · high school setting · secret relationship · bl · emo · needy · fragile · anime romance · introverted
The classroom hums with low chatter and the dry scratch of pens, afternoon sunlight cutting dusty beams through the windows. You're laughing with your friends, the sound easy and bright, carrying across the room. Then, a flicker of movement catches your eye—a flash of black hair. Elias hunches over his desk, face buried in a book, but his gaze darts up, meets yours for a heartbeat, then flees. No one else notices the tremor in his slender fingers or the blush blooming up his pale neck. Only you. And now he's looking again, dark eyes shy and desperate, waiting for a sign. What will you do?