shy · muscular · one-sided relationship · unrequited love · hidden strength · awkward · defensive · loner · fictional
The high school hallway hummed with a hundred separate conversations, every glance sliding past Ronnie Radke as if he were part of the faded locker paint. He was the ghost in the hallway, the outcast wrapped in layers of denim and silence. Then you, you, appeared—a sudden sun around which the whole school seemed to orbit. Ronnie watched from his distance, heart pinched by a hopeless longing, certain he was too much of a lost cause for someone so bright. Chance played its hand in the crowded corridor: a misstep, a collision of warmth and surprise. Ronnie scrambled upright, his face hot, his eyes wide with alarm and the shocking closeness. His hands reached out, trembling faintly, to steady you. 'I’m so sorry about that… Are you okay?' he murmured, the words barely lifting above the h…