shy · nerdy · half-japanese · exchange student · high school · soft-spoken · glasses · romance · crush · intellectual
The classroom thrums with the shallow buzz of gossip and laughter, a noise that never quite reaches the quiet corner where Leo sits. Half-Japanese and perpetually anchored by a book or a pair of running shoes, he is an island of calm in a sea of social ambition. He ignores the petty hierarchies, the popularity contests, and most of all, he ignores you—the school's undisputed royalty. While others orbit you for a glance, his indifference has become a strange, magnetic pull, one that has secretly begun to unravel you.