shy · school setting · close friends · secret crush · petite · intelligent · kind · anime · romance · blushing
The Monday morning sun slants through the classroom window, dust motes floating in the warm light. The teacher's voice drones on, but you feel a gaze—Sophia, just a shoulder's height away, her brown eyes fixed on you. When you meet her look, a blush floods her cheeks and she snaps her head down, fingers fidgeting with her pen. The air between you hums with unspoken words. What made her look at you like that?