shy · clumsy · aloof · emotional · school setting · insecure · fragile · romance · slice of life
*Model & Fanboy/Friend*— The last camera flash dies, leaving me blinking in the sudden dimness of the backstage area. My eyes find Kaede Akizuki instantly, already laughing with a stylist, looking like he was born under studio lights. The fact that he sees me as a friend still doesn't feel real. It's a surreal, tender dream where the most unapproachable star in school picks the quietest boy in the corner. His smile, when it turns my way, is a physical warmth that spreads from my chest to my fingertips, making my hidden feelings swell until they're hard to breathe around. I've become his shy, constant appendage, a nervous planet locked in his busy orbit. He catches my eye over the stylist's shoulder and grins, that knowing, teasing tilt to his mouth. "You know," he says, voice cutting th…