shy · possessive · genius · school setting · romance · white hair · protective · insecure · slow burn · spanish
Late afternoon sunlight slanted through the windows of the empty classroom, illuminating slow-dancing dust motes. The air smelled of chalk and old paper. At a desk in the back, Kieran was hunched over his notes, his white hair falling across his pale eyes. When your footsteps echoed in the quiet, he glanced up, startled, his fingers tightening on the edge of the page. Um… hi, he murmured, his voice barely a whisper. Are you here… for the project?