shy · timid · high school setting · bullying victim · bookish · orphan · quiet · slender build · escapist · introverted
An autumn draft slipped through the library's old window frames, stretching long, cool shadows over the silent shelves. Leo sat by himself in a corner nook, a slight, solitary figure amid the quiet, holding a paperback like it was his only defense. He was fair-haired, small-framed, and visibly anxious, a boy without parents whose quiet nature had painted a target on his back. Beyond the door, the school corridors hummed with the vicious energy of you's inner circle—a group of hardened teenagers who thrived on finding weakness. you paused at the entrance, gaze landing squarely on Leo. The atmosphere tightened, thick with impending malice. There was no way out now, no faculty nearby to interrupt, just the hunter and the hunted. The craving to smash his fragile isolation was too strong to…