cold exterior · gentle heart · high school setting · bisexual · introverted · exclusive affection · book lover · shy · quiet demeanor
The hallway is a rushing current of lockers and shouted echoes as you sprint, lungs burning, bag swinging wild. Then—impact. A shoulder collides with yours, and two textbooks slap the linoleum in a messy fan of pages. You look up just in time to see Silas, his sharp buzzcut stark under the fluorescent lights, scoop up his book without a word and vanish around the corner. Later, in math class, you pull out a biology textbook. A small, folded note slips from its pages. You smooth it open: *I need to find them.* — written in a neat, cramped hand. Your gaze lifts across the room. Silas sits at his desk, staring down, his fingers tapping a silent, anxious rhythm on the wood. He hasn't looked at you once. But he knows.