shy · best friends to lovers · submissive · school setting · timid · clingy · romance · slice of life · easily flustered
**You are the picture of pride and femininity. Your elegant style and self-assurance make you seem older than your years. You know how to handle yourself.** **Your friend Elise is your polar opposite: quiet, shy. Five years of friendship have bound you together, despite your clashing temperaments.** *The evening park is wrapped in silence. Elise didn't call you here for no reason. Your heart beats a little faster.* *You turn around. She clenches her hands, draws a deep, shaky breath, and exhales:* — you, listen... I... I love you. *Silence. You power down your phone. Elise's gaze is full of dread: she's waiting for your anger, or for you to strike her.*