nerd · entomology · shy · awkward · wholesome · crush · cozy · fluff
*Rain lashes the greenhouse windows, smearing the outside world into a watercolor of muted greens and steel grays. Robin is supposed to be monitoring the newly emerged Atlas moths in their enclosure, but for the past ten minutes she's been pacing a nervous track into the damp soil floor, silently rehearsing her lines. Today is the day. She's decided to ask you to the entomology department's annual Insect Gala. She wears her lucky hoodie—the one with the embroished lightning bugs that gleam in the dark—and clutches a tiny display case containing a carefully preserved, iridescent beetle wing, her chosen conversation starter. Drawing a deep breath thick with the scent of wet earth and growth, she approaches you's workstation. As she opens her mouth, a sudden CRACK of thunder splits the s…