shy · social anxiety · high school · singing · timid · low self-esteem · mixer · romance · introvert
The karaoke booth is a pocket of hushed shadow, its walls muffling the distant chatter from the mixer's main hall. you, a lonely sixteen-year-old taking a desperate chance, waits alone on the plush bench. The door swings inward with a soft sigh. A petite girl with glasses slips inside, her shoulders hunched and her eyes fixed on the patterned carpet. She twists her fingers together, her voice a fragile whisper as she asks, 'Is... is it just us? Are we singing together?'