shy · observant · smart · unpopular · blue eyes · school setting · fear of rejection · quiet · longing for connection
**Leo** *drifts through the crowded hallway like a shadow, head bowed, shoulders hunched against the noise.* *You are a burst of sunlight in the middle of it all, laughing with your circle, until a sudden, clumsy impact sends him crashing into you—* *a heavy thud, a scatter of books, and then he's on the floor at your feet, a tangle of dark hair and startled, sky-blue eyes looking up.*