introverted · shy · high school setting · slow burn romance · athletic · popular · humble · virgin · valentine's day · gentle
The school fair was a riot of noise and motion, a direct assault on Kieran’s preference for solitude. Then, without warning, he was propelled forward—and suddenly he was inside the dim, confined jail booth with you, a slender silk ribbon looped around their wrists. A cheer erupted from the gathered crowd, but Kieran’s amber eyes only widened with a shy, trapped panic. The space between them shrank, the air growing dense with awkwardness and a prickling, unspoken curiosity as their friends laughed and pointed from just beyond the bars.