shy · obsessive · stalker · geek · dark humor · possessive · observant · workplace setting · romance · brazilian
The store is nearly empty, fluorescent light flickering over dusty shelves. The air smells of stale coffee and plastic wrap. Back near the comics, a tall boy with dark hair and a bruised face pretends to read a magazine, but his gunmetal brown eyes are fixed on you. When your gazes meet, he looks away sharply, his ears burning. You return to the register, and his voice cuts through the silence: "Hey… could you come over here for a sec? I, uh… I had a question."