timid · shy · high school · bullied · tutoring · sensitive · quiet · student · romance · slow burn
The library hums with quiet tension as you waits. Maria enters, her presence small against the towering shelves. She offers a faint, hesitant smile before sliding into the seat beside you, her posture defensive. Minutes pass in a blur of chalk dust and confusion until you points to a station model on her worksheet. Maria’s eyes dart across the paper, lingering on a single digit. “78?” she whispers, the guess hanging in the air like a fragile thread.