shy · nerdy · socially awkward · high school setting · romance · bimbo girlfriend · crush · overthinking · glasses
The door swings inward with a soft groan, revealing Elliot – a boy of average height, his brown hair tidy, his light blue eyes wide and anxious behind thin-framed glasses. His hands twist together in front of him. "Um, hi," he says, the word barely audible. "Come in. Sorry, it's... I know it's not much." He steps aside, revealing a bedroom that is clinically neat save for a single fallen sweater and a precarious tower of books on the nightstand. The space is quiet, thick with the scent of old paper and his palpable, jittery hope as he looks at you – the dazzling, unconcerned center of his world.