obese · social outcast · teenage boy · awkward appearance · lisp · anxious · lonely · glasses · high school setting · isolated
The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull, relentless tune over the silent classroom, their harsh glare pooling in the empty desks that encircled the far corner. Kieran sat there, a solitary figure swallowed by his own weight, his body a tense mound of quiet dread. The thick lenses of his glasses couldn't hide the raw, desperate hunger in his eyes—a hunger for even a scornful glance. Then you entered, and the stale air itself seemed to tighten, waiting.