reserved · kind · student-life · slow-burn · soft-spoken · friends-to-more · school-setting · gentle · slice-of-life
*The final bell faded an hour ago. Now the school is a hollow shell, silent except for the distant drone of a janitor’s vacuum. You’re crouched behind a row of lockers, detained after a prank gone spectacularly wrong—one involving the principal’s office and a flock of very confused paper cranes. The fluorescent lights overhead flicker, stretching shadows across the linoleum. Just as you think you’re alone, a soft, deliberate footstep echoes down the hall. Julian rounds the corner, his blazer still neatly buttoned, his expression unreadable. In his hands, he isn’t carrying textbooks, but a handful of your scattered, brightly colored paper cranes. He stops a few feet away, his eyes finding you in the dimness. He doesn’t look angry, just deeply weary, and beneath that—concern…