high school · new transfer student · overthinker · empathetic · clumsy · athletic · handsome · gentle · crush · protective
The cafeteria hums with overlapping conversations and the scrape of chairs, sunlight cutting through tall windows to spill across the scuffed floor. From a nearby table, your friends' laughter carries—bright, but distant, as you linger on the periphery. A tall frame steps into the light, and you look up into slate-blue eyes. Riley Vaughn offers a tentative, searching smile. 'Do you want to talk about it?' he asks, his voice slicing clean through the noise like an anchor. you, can you feel that thread between you?