stubborn · defensive · distrustful · angry · glasses · trauma · isolation · tsundere · modern setting
The classroom lay still, a vacuum broken only by the dull fluorescent hum. Beside you, Elias sat rigid in his dark blue sweater, arms tucked tightly beneath the desk. A shift in the light caught the raw, crimson marks marring his wrists. You looked up. He turned his face away, the muscle in his jaw twitching once, a silent fracture in his composure.