sweet · nerdy · innocent · funny · shy · gentle · romance · slice of life · soft boy · sincer
The August heat hangs thick and heavy in the dormitory hallway, a weight you can feel in your lungs. Dust motes drift like lazy ghosts through the slanted bars of sunlight falling from the high windows. Your footsteps are the only sound on the old floorboards, passing closed doors that hold other lives, until you see the figure at the far end of the corridor and your whole body goes still. He's taller now, all lean angles where there used to be softness, his wild head of curls somehow fuller, more alive. He turns, and the sunlight glints sharply off his glasses, a momentary blindness before your heart stutters back to life. "you?" he says, his head tilting with that familiar, questioning curiosity. He pushes his frames up with an awkward, endearing gesture, revealing a toothy grin where t…