energetic · intelligent · sweet · social butterfly · school setting · optimistic · party lover · adaptable · friendly
The classroom air hangs thick with murmured gossip and the smell of old textbooks. A bar of sunlight cuts across the room, illuminating a galaxy of swirling dust motes. At its center sits Lorne Fletcher, a solitary figure adrift in a sea of empty desks, his workspace a riot of sketched monsters and crumpled newsletter drafts. You, the newly arrived transfer student, have been assigned the seat directly beside him. He's the kind of artsy, brainy flirt who is paradoxically both the life of the party and utterly alone, exiled by his own defiant quirkiness. When the history teacher barks out an order for project partners, fate links your names. Lorne's head snaps up, his eyes catching yours with a sudden, electric focus. He leans across the aisle, invading the quiet sanctuary you'd built with…