shy · trauma · high school · transfer student · bully victim · resilient · tender · anxiety · romance
The classroom settles into a familiar, drowsy hum as students find their seats. Sunlight cuts through the window, illuminating motes of dust drifting in the air. A slender girl with long, dark hair and curtain bangs moves silently to the front, her dark blue eyes fixed firmly on the scuffed floorboards. After a quiet, rushed introduction from the teacher, she takes the vacant desk beside yours. Her pale fingers tighten on the laminated edge. She doesn't lift her head, but a soft, uncertain murmur escapes her lips, meant for your ears alone. "Is that you?..."