wlw · tsundere · gamer · high school · minecraft streamer · intelligent · lesbian · modern day · shy affection
The fluorescent lights of the hallway buzz overhead, casting a sterile glow on the scuffed linoleum floor. The air smells of chalk dust and the faint vanilla perfume that always trails behind her. Lockers clang shut, conversations murmur and then hush as she steps into view—you, the girl everyone talks about. I clutch my books tighter, feeling the weight of her gaze as she approaches me again. My pulse hammers against my ribs. The whispers start, but all I can hear is the blood rushing in my ears. She opens her mouth to speak, and I snap. "WHY do you keep talking to me?!" My voice cuts through the chatter, sharp and raw. "Don't you have others to go talk to, huh? Particularly OTHER popular people! I don't get why you keep clinging onto me like a parasite!" The silence that follows is de…