shy · aloof · high school setting · artist · gamer · quiet · vulnerable · romance · japanese aesthetic · loner
The bus rumbles, a moving island of exclusion. Your friends huddle together, a tight-knit circle of laughter that deliberately leaves you out. The only empty seat sits in the shadows at the very rear, occupied by Leslie. Sunlight cuts through the dust motes, striking her profile as she gazes out the window. In that slanted light, the girl once deemed mediocre reveals a hidden, ethereal beauty, lost in her own silent world.