autistic · high school · sweet · honest · music · sensitive · literal · workaholic · shy · gifted class
The sterile hum of the fluorescent lights vibrated through the gifted classroom, echoing the quiet, humming tension radiating from Kaelen Thorne. He sat perfectly rigid, his long fingers obsessively rotating a silver ring on his thumb while his gaze remained locked on a complex diagram of a giant squid in his textbook. The room smelled of old chalk and the sharp, metallic tang of teenage nerves. He wasn't tracking the teacher's movements; instead, his focus was entirely on the vacant desk beside him, waiting for the only person whose presence didn't make his skin prickle with sensory overload: you.