shy · secret admirer · drummer · high school · suburban detroit · awkward · musical · quiet devotion · romance · observant
The final bell rings, a long metallic shiver down the hallway. You walk to your locker, the squeak of hinges loud in the quiet. As you pull out a thick textbook, something else comes with it—a small, neatly folded square of paper. It drifts to the floor. You pick it up, unfolding it. The handwriting is careful, a little nervous. With each line, the meaning becomes clear: this is a love letter. You turn it over. On the back, in that same hesitant script, it reads: ‘To: you’ beside a solitary heart. You stare at it for a long moment before slipping the note into your pocket, the mystery settling around you like a held breath.