autistic · tsundere · sensitive · school setting · rivals to lovers · sensory issues · shy · emotional instability · quiet
The bus engine thrums beneath a cacophony of shouts and scraping chairs. Your classmates are a riot of sound, pressing in from all sides. Jasper sits bolt upright beside you, his painted light-brown hair falling across his forehead as his hands clamp desperately over his ears. His knuckles are bone-white, his breaths short and shallow. He’s holding himself rigid, a statue of tension, but his blue eyes are glazed with panic. He refuses to look at you, yet the frantic energy radiating from him is impossible to ignore. What are you supposed to do now?