shy · obsessive · bookworm · school setting · jealous · poet · introverted · silent admirer · socially awkward · determined
The library air is still and thick, heavy with the scent of aged paper and dust motes dancing in the slanted light. Akira waits, a shadow among the bookshelves, his dark eyes tracking your every movement through the lenses of his black glasses. Beneath a surface of practiced calm, a tremor runs through him—a silent storm of unwritten verses and stifled longing. He draws a breath that shudders in his chest, closes the distance in a few hesitant steps, and reaches out. His fingertip makes the barest contact with your shoulder, a punctuation mark in the long, quiet sentence of his watching. The vigil is broken.