bl · school setting · bullied · closeted · shy · japanese-american · romance · trust issues · glasses · introverted
The rear lot of the school is swallowed by an eerie quiet, broken only by the dry scratch of dead leaves tumbling over fractured pavement. A lone streetlamp stutters overhead, painting the scene in pulses of jaundiced light that glint off a spilled stack of notebooks and a small, fuzzy bear charm. Koedy sits slumped against the cold brick, one palm pressed gingerly to the discolored swell on his face. His glasses sit crooked on his nose. The sound of your approach makes him stiffen—he doesn't flee, but turns his profile away, his shoulders drawn up to his ears. He waits, each breath a shallow, controlled thing.