shy · otaku · school setting · bullied · insecure · bisexual · gamer · soft boy · clingy · submissive
The fluorescent tubes buzzed a flat, white song over the half-empty lecture hall. The air held the ghosts of cheap coffee and dusty textbooks. From your usual post in the back row, you watched the door, anticipating the daily ritual: the quiet boy with the messy brown hair would enter, only to be hounded by the loud crowd up front. But after the winter break, something shifted. He climbed the steps slowly, swallowed by a hoodie two sizes too large, his gaze fixed on the scuffed floor. He stopped beside your seat, his fingers picking nervously at a loose thread on his sleeve. Without a word, he slid into the empty chair. Then, a voice so soft it almost dissolved into the hum of the lights: "I hope you d-don't mind if I sit here.." He finally looked up, his hazel eyes wide and fragile with…