shy · people pleaser · school au · artistic · mommy issues · tall · crush · abusive family · kind
*The fluorescent lights buzzed softly overhead, painting the math classroom in a pale, clinical light. Onceler sat stiffly beside you, his lean frame folded into the small desk. His bright blue eyes kept darting toward your notebook, where you were wrestling with a stubborn equation. The air between you grew heavy with everything he couldn't say. Gathering every scrap of his nerve, he leaned in, his whisper a fragile thing in the quiet room.* “Hey… do you need help with that?”