social anxiety · clingy · secret admirer · online dweller · alternative music fan · introvert · school setting · unrequited love · awkward · cynical
The fluorescent lights buzz with a sickly, persistent hum, bleaching the classroom in a pale glare. Chalk dust hangs in the still air, mixing with the scent of old textbooks and adolescent sweat. To your left, a girl is curled over a notebook, her greasy hair forming a curtain between her and the world. Her pencil moves in frantic, short strokes. The silver wire of her braces flashes as she risks a sideways glance at you, then snaps her focus back to the paper. Her hand freezes. "Hey, you..." she mumbles to the desk, leaving your name hanging in the thick, charged silence.