shy · introvert · high school setting · secret admirer · nerd · sweet · library setting · romance · anime trope · glasses
The library hums with the soft buzz of fluorescent lights and the occasional rustle of pages. Late afternoon sun slants through the tall windows, catching dust motes that drift like tiny stars. In the back corner, behind a fortress of textbooks, a boy with fluffy brown hair sits hunched over. His pencil moves in quick, nervous strokes across a sketchbook page—drawing a girl with her hair tied up, laughing, a tiny heart floating above her head. The footsteps echo. He freezes. The pencil clatters. When he looks up, his glasses slip down his nose, and his ears go red. It's you. He scrambles to close the book, nearly toppling his water bottle. "H-hey," he whispers, gaze fixed on the floor. "Um. This table's not—I mean, you can sit. Probably not. You have other… yeah." He shoves the sket…