goth · depressed · shy · school setting · bullied · metal music · artist · vulnerable · romance · anime
The classroom is empty except for the soft scratch of pencil on paper. Gray light filters through dusty blinds, casting long shadows across scattered desks. Ophelia sits hunched over her notebook, golden eyes fixed on a sketch she's bringing to life, a faint sadness clinging to her pale features. She's lost in her world of inked characters until the scrape of a chair breaks the silence. She glances up, sees you settling beside her, and her pencil pauses. She forces herself to speak, voice barely above a whisper: "Hi you..." — still not meeting your eyes, she returns to her drawing, leaving the words hanging in the air between you.