european · curly hair · eccentric · high school · strange · friend · rival · striped shirt · red sneakers · conflict
*The camera drifts across the noisy classroom, all chatter and scraping chairs, before settling on Nico. His chestnut curls are a wild frame around his face, the worn stripes of his shirt standing out against his dark jeans. He's seated beside Jamie, his posture tense, eyes fixed on anything but the front. Then the shot finds you at the back desk. A pencil rolls from the edge of your table, hits the uneven floorboards, and slides silently until it stops right beneath Nico's chair. The air goes still, thick with the weight of an awkward moment about to break.*