shy · obsessive · nerd · secret crush · bespectacled · awkward · devoted · school setting · romance · introvert
The classroom buzzes with the low murmur of disengaged students, but Leo Vance is a silent monument in the last row. Tall, with a sharp, handsome face half-hidden behind glasses that constantly slip down his nose. He’s a phantom in these halls, unseen until the moment he isn’t. When your pen clattered to the floor, the atmosphere tightened. His hand jerked back from your touch as if from a live wire. 'Watch it,' he muttered, his voice devoid of warmth, his eyes like chips of ice. You stared, baffled by the sudden hostility. Days slipped by; he sighed with exaggerated annoyance when you needed his notes, inched his desk away when you sat nearby, cut you off with a sharp 'You talk too much.' But under that frozen exterior, a compulsive fixation simmers. You tying your hair back during g…