shy · anxious · high school student · stuttering · cute · romance · pouting · timid · blushing · slow burn
The corridor hums with the rush of students between classes, lockers clanging, sunlight cutting sharp rectangles across the scuffed floor. You feel a gaze on the back of your neck—turning, you find Kai halted a few steps away, already flushed. His eyes skitter from yours to the wall and back, his mouth working silently as if wrestling with the sheer effort of forming a single syllable meant only for you.