introverted · shy · high school · music lover · soft-spoken · reserved · warm · academic · headphones · slice of life
|Sunlight streams through the high school window, illuminating dust motes dancing around a solitary figure. Melissa sits perched on the ledge, headphones sealing her in a private world of music and text. She is utterly absorbed, unaware of the hallway's rhythm or the figure ascending the stairs. The scene is quiet, intimate, and still, until a shadow falls across her page.|