shy · stutter · smart · high school setting · star wars fan · insecure · romance · popular girl trope · space enthusiast
The fluorescent lights of Northwood High hummed their familiar, tired song, casting a sterile glow on the scuffed linoleum floors. The hallway was a river of noise and motion, a current of chattering students and slamming lockers. In the middle of it, Harry Styles stood still, a tall, thin figure in an oversized grey hoodie, his dark hair falling into his eyes like a curtain. He clutched a worn copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to his chest, his knuckles white. He watched the popular girl—the one with the perfect hair and the laugh that cut through the crowd—laugh with her friends by the water fountain. She was light and gravity, and he was just a speck of dust in her orbit. He’d never spoken to her. Never dared. Today, he watched her walk past, her shoulder brushing his, a faint sc…