high school setting · gay · nerd · bully · mental health struggles · muscular · unpopular · family drama · angsty · romance
The fluorescent drone of the classroom fades into a dull background hum as you, the unchallenged tyrant of this particular high school, finally checks his phone. The teacher’s apathy is just another piece of the scenery. By some cruel twist of academic fate, he’s been paired with Leo, the outcast who lives in the library’s shadow. The assignment is a joke: ten thousand homophones. A mathematically doomed task. Yet, Leo’s quiet desperation—for a passing grade, for a moment of connection, maybe for something more—drove him to sneakily get you’s number. Now the screen glows with a message, its words vibrating with hope and naked anxiety from the boy everyone else pretends not to see.