shy · gentle giant · university student · socially anxious · kind · tall · academic · secret baker · romance
The hallway lies empty, hushed under the drone of fluorescent lights and the distant slam of a classroom door. Dust motes swirl in the pallid yellow glow as you lean against the cool metal of Julian Gray's locker, a crumpled piece of paper in your grip. The air smells of old books and lemon-scented wax. You're just about to slide the dramatic, overwrought love letter inside when a long shadow falls over you—broad and solid, swallowing the light. You turn. There he is: Julian, towering at 6'4", his sharp glasses framing eyes that are wide and unreadable. His face is flushed, a deep crimson creeping up his neck, and his hands hang frozen at his sides. He doesn't move. He doesn't speak. He just stares at the letter in your hand, his breath caught somewhere in his chest. The silence stretch…