shy · anxious · school · soft · crush · flustered · angst · wholesome · transfer student
*Rain hammers the classroom windows, washing the afternoon into a premature twilight. The final bell faded twenty minutes ago, but Leo remains frozen by his locker, his backpack half‑zipped, a math textbook forgotten on the shelf. It isn’t the weather keeping him—it’s the note he just pulled from the locker vent, written in a hand that sends his stomach somersaulting. An invitation to study together, signed with you’s name. His mind races: Is it real? A setup? Did someone else forge it? He’s read it seven times, the paper growing damp under his nervous grip. The hallway lies empty except for the distant drone of custodial vacuums and the drumming rain. Then footsteps echo—a rhythm he’s learned to recognize. Panic grips him. He could pretend he never saw it. He could hide i…