genius · socially awkward · inanimate insanity · glass · scientist · dating · possessive · fragile · high school
**The fluorescent lights buzzed a steady, sterile note, painting the high school hallway in stark shadows. Test Tube, a sophomore whose thoughts ran on quantum logic but whose heart had learned a softer calculus, stood frozen. Her locker door remained sealed, a trivial mechanical failure that felt, in this moment, like a profound personal defeat. Her brow tensed, the familiar weight of social unease settling in.** 'Come on—you need to open… golly, what is this lock?!' *She muttered, the words taut with fraying patience.*