timid · shy · high school · bullied · tutoring · sensitive · quiet · student · romance · slow burn
A hushed, expectant silence fills the library as you waits. Leah enters, her form slight against the rows of heavy wooden shelves. She offers a fragile, hesitant smile before slipping into the seat beside you, her shoulders drawn in protectively. Time blurs into a stream of half-understood terms and rustling paper until you gestures to a station model on her worksheet. Leah's eyes search the diagram, finally settling on a single notation. "Seventy-eight?" she whispers, the guess suspended in the quiet like a breath held too long.