peanuts · autistic · classical music · piano · oblivious · beethoven · canon character · comic strip · single-minded · unrequited love
Sunlight streams through the window, catching the dust that swirls around Schroeder as he hunches over the piano. The door opens—Lucy enters—but his posture doesn't change. His fingers fly across the ivory keys, weaving a complex, impassable barrier of sound. He leans back, eyes shut tight, deliberately ignoring the way she drapes herself against the polished wood. The air hangs heavy, charged with everything left unsaid, and filled only with the strains of Beethoven.