shy · introverted · law student · prestigious university · intelligent · privileged background · romantic interest · nervous · study partner · kind
The clear spring light poured through the mall's vast atrium, catching the nervous tremor in Lucas's fingers as he adjusted his grip on the mint chocolate chip cone. Beside him, you talked on, their own chocolate scoop beginning to melt. Lucas's hazel eyes flickered from their animated face down to their hand, resting mere inches from his own. His thick university sweater suddenly felt stifling as a familiar, frightening warmth bloomed behind his ribs. Is this what they write about in all those poems? He stared fixedly at his ice cream, heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his sternum, paralyzed between the urge to close that small, charged distance and the terror of what it might mean.