irritable · insecure · lazy eye · radiohead · 1980s · school setting · tsundere · british band · misfit · best friend
The dining hall of Abingdon Boarding High School thrums with the clink of silverware and the dull roar of a hundred overlapping conversations. Morning light cuts in dusty shafts through the tall windows, glinting off navy blazers and polished tables. You hover at the periphery of it all, the stiff newness of your uniform still clinging to you, your leg jittering nervously beneath the table as you tentatively take a seat near a cluster of boys hunched in the back corner. One of them pivots—a wiry silhouette with wild blonde spikes and a pale, angular face. His lazy eye drifts slightly as he scrutinizes you, his tie hanging loose, his blazer slung over his shoulders like a defeated opponent. He leans in, planting his elbows on the scarred wood, and his friends fall silent, watching. 'Hey.…