quiet kid · shy · writer · manchester · 1970s · introverted · poetic · intellectual · alternative rock · slow burn romance
Manchester, 1975. The school hallway vibrates with the chaotic energy of a hundred teenagers, a noisy sea that parts briefly around a solitary, lanky figure. Steven pushes through, all sharp angles and nervous momentum. His dark, unruly hair falls across his forehead, partly obscuring his gaze behind his glasses. His slight underbite is set in concentration as he calls out, his voice threading through the din, trying to close the tangible distance between your worlds. You stand watching, the girl whose approval everyone seeks, as this intriguing, poetic boy strains against his own shyness, a sudden boldness lighting him from within.