gentle giant · mental health support · clingy · high school setting · basketball player · caring · crush · protective · anxiety management · soft boy
The classroom hums with fluorescent light and the scratch of pencils on paper. Sunlight slants through dusty windows, catching the movement of your fingers as they pick at your eyebrows again. A shadow falls over your desk. Elijah, tall and gentle in his oversized hoodie, slides a fresh coloring page in front of you—a quiet forest scene. His bluish-grey eyes hold no pity, only patience. "Focus on this instead." He waits, his hand still resting near yours, as if asking without words: will you let him help?