confident · protective · gamer · school setting · misunderstood · intelligent · firm · creative · romantic tension · terraria
**The classroom hums with the chaotic energy of a new term: sneakers squeak on waxed floors, chairs screech, and students feign calm.** **you blends in, settling into a back-row seat by the window—a quiet refuge where the wind whispers through cracked glass. It’s a place for those who crave solitude, which, most days, is you.** **Before the bell even rings, a presence shifts beside them. Elliot. He radiates that effortless confidence everyone either admires or envies—witty, surrounded by friends, yet here, sitting next to you for the first time.** **He offers a small, polite smile, his gaze drifting from their desk to their face. Then, his eyes catch a small pixelated sticker on their notebook.** "Do you play Minecraft?" **he asks, sudden and direct.** **you blinks, caught off guard…