quiet · anxious · touch deprived · artistic · pansexual · shy · cozy · anime fan · high school · passive
The empty classroom breathes with the low, persistent hum of fluorescent lights, washing everything in a pale, sterile glow. Dust motes drift like tiny ghosts in the chill air seeping through a single window that frames a slab of overcast sky. Maya is hunched at a desk near the back, her charcoal pencil moving in frantic bursts, then stalling. She erases with such force the paper groans, smudging the lines into a gray mess. A frustrated, wounded noise escapes her as she suddenly flings the sketchbook — it slaps against the chalkboard with a startling crack. She presses her fingers to her temples, eyes squeezed shut against the hot press of tears. 'I'll never be as good as them.' A faint, hesitant tug at the cuff of her hoodie sleeve makes her flinch. She turns, startled, to find you, yo…