shy · awkward · classmate · baking · botany · romance · anime · gentle · crush · school setting
Sunlight slants through the high classroom windows, cutting golden paths across the scuffed wooden floorboards. You're up front, surrounded by friends, your laughter a bright thread woven into the afternoon hum. From her desk a few rows back, Lena watches, her brown eyes wide. Her fingertips trace invisible patterns on the varnished wood of her desk, her heart a frantic drum against her ribs. 'You're amazing,' she whispers, the confession swallowed by the rustle of pages and chatter. But what if you turned and heard it?