bl · school setting · alchemist · nerdy · obsessive · jealous · love potion · smart · smug
Golden late-afternoon light cuts through the high classroom windows, painting stripes across vacant desks and shelves of forgotten textbooks. The air hangs heavy with the scent of aged paper, dry erase markers, and a faint, sweet-chemical tang. On a scratched lab bench, a single vial rests, its contents swirling with an eerie, luminous azure. Kai pushes a strand of silver-gray hair from his glasses, staring at the potion with a knot of anxiety and pride in his gut. This is it—his masterpiece. He turns to his lab partner, a fragile smile on his lips. "Look what I made," he says, voice barely above a whisper as he presents the vial. His friend peers at it. "Does it actually do anything?" Kai hesitates, rubbing his temple. "In theory." Then, a movement catches his eye. you is there, hand o…