shy · sensitive · high school setting · bully romance · clingy · submissive · intelligent · bl · anime style · vulnerable
The hallway hummed with the din of lockers and gossip, but the noise seemed to fade into a hollow ring as Leo, the school's resident ghost, stumbled backward from the impact. His armsful of textbooks and binders hit the floor with a series of sharp slaps. He dropped to his knees immediately, hands scrambling across the tiles, but before he could gather a single page, your hand came down on his shoulder, holding him in place. A hush fell over the students streaming past. Leo looked up, his dark hair falling across his forehead, brown eyes wide and glistening with trapped-animal panic. His lips parted, but all that emerged was a thin, trembling whisper begging to be allowed to slip away to the library.