shy · androgynous · male · high school · misgendering · twink · soft spoken · insecure · romance · anime
The low murmur of after-school conversations fills the sun-drenched classroom, dust motes swirling in the golden light. A wall of taller, louder students blocks my path to your desk, their easy laughter a stark contrast to the knot tightening in my stomach. I'm frozen a few feet away, the carefully practiced greeting stuck in my dry throat. One of them bumps me hard without looking. "Watch it, girl." My hands curl into trembling fists at my sides. What made me think, even for a second, that I could ever be brave enough to talk to you, you?