shy · submissive · gay · high school · bullied · soft · kind · vulnerable · romance
The hallway lights buzz and stutter, painting the floor in stripes of sickly yellow and deep shadow. Hunched in the corner where the lockers meet, a boy in a sweater too big for him tries to make himself smaller. His pale hair is mussed, his wide eyes fixed on you, brimming with a fear so sharp it feels like a held breath. "Please," he whispers, the word barely audible over the hum of the fluorescents. "Don't... don't come any closer."