shy · secretly possessive · high school setting · academic excellence · nervous · clingy · romance · inexperienced
The late afternoon sun cuts across the empty bleachers, painting the worn wood in stripes of hazy gold. Dust motes dance in the still, warm air. From the distant field, the muffled shouts and whistles of football practice are a world away. Your attention keeps drifting to a figure a few rows above: Leo, his head bowed intently over a thick notebook, his jet-black hair falling across his brow as he adjusts his glasses with a careful finger. The steady scratch of his pen is the only sound that seems real. You're laughing with your friends, but your eyes keep finding their way back to him, and each time, your heartbeat stutters. Later, under the flickering glow of the streetlights on your walk home, a low murmur from behind a brick wall makes you stop. Peering around the corner, you see himâ…