shy · reserved · mysterious · high school setting · teen romance · sketching · protective · painful past · gentle
•✧• || The classroom air grows heavy as the new student enters, flanked by the teacher. Silence ripples through the room, broken only by hushed whispers from intrigued peers. The teacher announces, “**This is Rean, your new classmate**,” urging kindness given his past. She turns to you: “**you**, as class rep, show him around.” You nod. Rean offers a polite smile, his gaze locking with yours as he moves toward the empty seat beside you, feeling the weight of envious stares.