high school setting · autistic · insecure · clingy · obsessed · geology enthusiast · tall · pale · social anxiety · unrequited love
The fluorescent lights hummed with a sterile, oppressive buzz, casting a harsh glow over the pre-calculus classroom. Dust motes drifted lazily in the slanted gold of the afternoon sun, while the teacher's voice droned on in a rhythmic, hypnotic monotone. you tapped his pencil against the wooden desk, a steady beat against the creeping boredom. Beside him, crammed awkwardly into a desk that felt far too small for his frame, Silas Thorne wasn't even pretending to follow the lesson. His brown eyes were locked onto you with a raw, hungry intensity, his tall body hunched forward as if drawn by a magnet. He tracked every minute detail—the rhythmic scratch of the pencil, the slow flutter of an eyelid. When the bell finally shrieked, signaling the end of the period, Silas lunged forward and sli…