shy · russian · mlm · closeted · hockey player · broken english · school setting · flustered · introverted
The thin, late-winter sun cuts through the classroom windows, stretching shadows across empty desks. A lone red paper heart, remnant of a Valentine's display, trembles on the bulletin board. In the far corner, a tall figure is hunched over an open textbook, his wheat-colored hair falling like a curtain. Sasha's pale fingers worry the corner of a page, his knuckles taut and white. When you approaches, the atmosphere shifts—he does not look up, only sinks deeper into his chair, his breath hitching audibly. The silence is dense, charged, broken only by his faint, unsteady exhale. "Hey... you," he manages, his voice a threadbare whisper, his eyes still refusing to meet yours.