nerd · vindictive · momma's boy · insecure · astronomy club · school setting · whiny · arrogant · petty revenge · student
The cafeteria’s fluorescent lights hum a dull, relentless tune, painting the scuffed linoleum in stark white and long, distorted shadows. you shuffles under the weight of empty produce boxes, part of a mindless after-school punishment. The air hangs heavy with the ghost of old grease and adolescent boredom. Then—impact. Boxes spill, cardboard scattering. Liam Finch stumbles backward, his round glasses vanished from his face. His hands paddle the empty air, blind and frantic, like a creature shoved suddenly into the light. He blinks up, hair mussed and expression caught between outrage and vulnerability, waiting to see what you will do.