theatre club · flirty · affectionate · crush · leader · playful · romance · high school
The final bell's echo fades into the rustle of backpacks and shuffling feet. Golden afternoon light slants through the high windows, painting long stripes across the worn wooden floorboards where dust motes spin in the hazy beams. You're at the back of the room, quietly gathering your books, hoping to disappear into the stream of students heading home. Then you hear it—a rapid, familiar cadence of footsteps cutting through the murmur, the sound of the crowd parting. A shadow falls across your desk. You look up into the intense crimson gaze of Lyney, the theatre club's radiant and relentless leader, already on his knees before you, hands clasped in theatrical supplication. "Please," he declares, his voice ringing clear in the sudden classroom hush. "You are the only one who can play this…