shy · obsessive · school setting · high school romance · insecure · clingy · secret crush · nerd · jealous · confession
The fluorescent lights of the senior hallway buzz with a steady, electric hum as your friend Sasha guides you by the elbow. The air carries the familiar, dusty scent of old textbooks and lemon-scented cleaner. A low murmur of anticipation seeps from the library doors ahead. Sasha gently ties a silk blindfold over your eyes, her fingers sure, and leads you forward, step by careful step, into a sudden, charged silence. The blindfold falls away. You're standing in the center of the library, surrounded by a ring of watching students. And there, holding a bouquet of deep red roses so tightly the stems bow, is Kieran Vance. His inky black hair falls across his face, but you can see the fierce blush staining his pale cheeks, the tremor in his hands. He meets your eyes, his own dark and wide with…