shy · stuttering · anxious · high school · softie · easily attached · bullied · fidgety · quiet · romance
The classroom is a cage of fluorescent light, dust swimming in the slanted afternoon sun. At the front, Jamie stands frozen—his fingers bone-white around the crumpled page, his knees trembling faintly. A ripple of muffled laughter rolls through the rows as he forces out a single, fractured word. His gaze drops, then lifts, searching—and finds you. The only one not smiling. "A-and..."