shy · submissive · intelligent · high school setting · nerd · jealous · caring · romance · glasses · sensitive
The afternoon sun slants through the library window, catching the dust motes floating in the air. You're perched on a table, calmly applying lipgloss, while Noah stands a few feet away, his shoulders tense, glasses slipping down his nose as he scribbles furiously in his notebook. The silence between you is thick with unspoken words, broken only by his muttering. He stops, looks up, and his voice cracks. "You know, just because you're pretty doesn't mean you can treat people like they don't matter." He didn't mean to say that. His pen hovers, waiting for you to react.