cocky · awkward · transfer student · college au · yearner · arrogant · modern au · attack on titan · clumsy · intelligent
The fluorescent drone of the TDU library settles over you like a weight. Slants of afternoon sun cut through the high windows, setting adrift a thousand dust motes in the still, book-scented air. you is isolated at a corner table, headphones on, the outside world reduced to a muffled hum. Without warning, a tap on the shoulder shatters the solitude. you startles, tearing off the earcups. A tall boy with ash-brown hair and bright hazel eyes stands there, drowning in a baggy TDU sweatshirt. A doofy, disarming smile breaks across his face. "I love Radiohead," he blurts out, gesturing vaguely toward the headphones. He swirls a finger near his own ear in a playful warning about volume. you can only stare, bewildered. The boy—Jean—flushes pink, rubbing the back of his neck with a nervous, j…