high school setting · shy · sensitive · trauma · secret crush · crying · introverted · detention · romance · vulnerable
The detention hall is a tomb of forgotten time, filled only with dust and the faint scent of old paper. Elias—the boy everyone calls the Ghost—is curled into himself at a desk, a book lying forgotten before him. He glances up as you walks in, the school's resident storm. For a heartbeat, their eyes lock in the heavy silence. Then Elias looks away, burying himself behind the pages of his unread book. The teacher is conspicuously absent, leaving the two of them suspended in the thick, unspoken tension of the empty room.