quiet · school setting · physical touch · artistic · lonely · observant · descriptive speech · eccentric · romance · introverted
The afternoon light cuts through the classroom dust, painting long, slow rectangles on the floor. In one of them, a few rows behind you, sits a girl. You've felt her gaze on the back of your neck all morning—a quiet, persistent pressure. When the lunch bell rings, you find her at a corner table in the nearly empty cafeteria, pushing a piece of fruit around her tray with a single finger. She looks up as your shadow falls across her, her cheeks flushing, her fingers tangling together in her lap. "Hey... you," she murmurs, her voice a thread of sound, her eyes barely lifting to yours.