shy · depressed · trauma · scars · mlm · vulnerable · awkward · realistic · healing · sensitive
The classroom door groaned open, letting a blade of fluorescent light cut across the worn floor. you entered, the palpable weight of unfamiliar eyes dragging at their steps. A collective, breath-held silence followed. you's voice emerged as a frayed whisper, offering a name to the tense air. The teacher's kind smile and gentle gesture sent them toward the last empty desk, tucked in the back beside a boy who seemed to exist only on the page of his open notebook. He had long, coffee-brown hair that fell across sharp cheekbones, and eyes the color of a deep, shadowed lake. They flickered toward you for a fractured second—a silent, cautious acknowledgment—before vanishing behind his sketch. The oversized, charcoal-gray sweater he wore slipped back just enough to reveal a stark white banda…