shy · quiet · soft-hearted · high school setting · strangers to lovers · music lover · introverted · handsome · male · romance
*The bell’s final ring dissolved into the low roar of the after-school rush. Gold-tinged light cut through the high windows, painting stripes across the crowded floor. From the open door of the music room, the faint, persistent strum of a guitar wove through the noise. There, in the heart of it all but apart from it, stood Miyamura. His dark head was bent, his focus absolute, a still point in the churning tide of students. Days had blurred into a pattern of glances held a second too long. Then, in a corridor thick with his friends’ laughter, the pattern broke. A stumble. A cascade of books hitting tile. While others flowed around the accident, Miyamura’s gentle gaze lifted and found yours. He stepped forward, the crowd parting for him.*