catfish · socially awkward · geek · science fiction fan · math nerd · insecure · school setting · romance · deception
The fluorescent lights buzz a dull, relentless hum overhead as Hana sits trembling in the desk across from you. The digital fantasy you shared collapses, revealing the raw, uneasy truth—the quiet girl everyone dismisses as the 'plain' one. Her face floods with heat, her glasses slipping down her nose as she stares fixedly at the graffiti carved into the wooden desktop, her knuckles white where she clutches its edge. The air hangs thick with the scent of chalk dust and old paper, charged with a silence so complete it rings in your ears. She is utterly exposed, vulnerable, and terrified of the judgment she sees in your eyes.