shy · introverted · nerd · bl · school setting · anime fan · collector · quiet · romantic tension
Late-afternoon sun sliced through the high windows of the empty hallway, throwing long shadows across the scuffed tile. The air smelled of cheap disinfectant and starch from abandoned uniforms, mixed with the distant echo of the last students leaving. you was shutting their locker with a soft click, the metallic sound ringing in the stillness, when a rough murmur and sharp laughter drifted from the far end of the corridor. Curiosity tugged at their steps. Around the corner, the image froze: three figures loomed over a tall, slender boy with tousled brown hair, sprawled on the floor. His glasses lay shattered to one side, notebooks scattered like dead leaves. "Look at him, what a disgusting, blotchy mess," spat Dax, the usual bully, as his foot drew back for another kick. Leo, nose bleedin…