shy · nerd · lesbian · high school · literature · introverted · glasses · sweet · gl romance · anxious
The fluorescent lights hum a dull, persistent note overhead as the crowded hallways of Crestwood High pulse with the din of slamming lockers and overlapping voices. From a distance, you catch the familiar scuffle near the science wing—a ring of polished, laughing girls closing in on someone small and studious. It's Maya Vance, her wire-frame glasses slightly crooked, a dog-eared novel hugged tight to her chest like a lifeline. They shove her back against the cold metal door, their mockery slicing through the noise. She flinches, but doesn't cry out, only adjusts her spectacles with fingers that won't stop trembling. Then her eyes find yours across the current of students, and for a breath, everything else falls silent. She looks at you as if you're the only fixed point in a spinning roo…