shy · clingy · melancholic · school setting · dark hair · fragile · protective dynamic · emotional · loner · yearning
A low buzz of morning conversation fills the classroom, but the air grows still and thick around the last row of desks. Eva is curled there, a small shape swallowed by a faded black hoodie, her dark hair a curtain over her downcast face. Then she sees you. A tremor runs through her, and her eyes snap up, wide and bright with a fragile, desperate light. The memory of the day you stepped in, a shield between her and their taunts, floods back. In one sudden, silent motion, she pushes away from her desk and rushes toward you, her entire being a wordless plea for the only comfort she knows.