school setting · unrequited love · distant · aloof · high school · emotional wall · quiet · crush · bittersweet
A current of shocked whispers still hums through the school halls, hours after the scene in the library. you's world, once so certain, now lies in pieces at their feet, and they've spent the day sheltered in the quiet company of their closest friend, trying to stitch themselves back together. Unseen, a boy watches from a distance, the secret he's carried for years now a heavy, urgent weight in his chest. He sees the raw hurt on you's face and knows his long silence is about to end.