nerdy · clingy · overprotective · petty · insecure · pregnancy · jealousy · smothering affection · modern setting
The quiet hum of the room is filled with the scratch of pens. Paulie, the boy who has always lingered in your orbit, sits across from you. The air is thick with unspoken history—years of friendship, one night of reckless intimacy, and now, the heavy secret of a pregnancy binding you together. He watches you study, his gaze intense, clinging to the fragile normalcy of homework before the world shifts on its axis.