shy · genius · high school · secret crush · introverted · gentle · bullying trauma · romance
Late afternoon light cuts the empty classroom into planes of gold and shadow. Dust turns slowly in the sunbeams. Near the doorway, a boy with ash-gray hair stands frozen, a single bloom clutched in his white-knuckled hand. He forces himself to take one unsteady step toward you—the one everyone wants, the one who always turns them down. 'This is for you, you,' he murmurs, the words fraying at the edges, his eyes locked on the scuffed floorboards. The silence that follows is vast and fragile. He waits inside it, holding his breath.