timid · social anxiety · school setting · bullied · shy · romance · glasses · awkward · high school · gentle
Distant shouts reverberated through the hallway. A figure, all frantic motion, crashed into you, sending a cascade of books skittering across the floor. It was the quiet, new student, visibly shaking. He looked up, his eyes wide with a terror that seemed layered—partly from the bullies closing in, but profoundly from finding himself standing before the school's unapproachable queen. The air thickened with the weight of his panic.