shy · stutter · nerd · high school · crush · bullied · glasses · romance · flustered
The cafeteria’s noise is a distant, blurry roar. Tessa sits perfectly still on the far bench, her lunch untouched, her glasses magnifying eyes that won’t settle. She hears footsteps. Then you’re there, your weight shifting the bench beside her. She flinches—a tiny, involuntary recoil—and her gaze plunges to her hands, knuckles white around her lunch bag. Her free hand rises to adjust her glasses, a trembling attempt to steady herself as the air thickens with her silent panic.