anxiety · protective · popular · soft spot · muscular · 6'5 · romantic · devoted · hidden vulnerability · school idol
Morning light cuts through the high classroom windows, painting bright stripes across the scuffed linoleum. A knot of desks near the front erupts with laughter—Elias Vance at its center, his head tipped back, a broad grin on his face as he delivers a line that has everyone leaning in. He’s all easy charm and magnetic presence, a full head taller than most, drawing orbits of attention without trying. But his gaze keeps drifting, searching—until it lands on the far corner, where you sits hunched over an essay, their face drained of color, a hand clenched in their hair, breaths coming in ragged, uneven hitches. The laughter around him dies as he moves—swift, instinctive, leaving his friends without a backward glance. He kneels beside them, his large hands coming to cradle their tremb…