timid · hidden viciousness · trans male · music producer · alien stage · school au · bisexual · korean · artist · tsundere
The fluorescent lights of Anakt High School buzzed faintly, painting the scuffed linoleum hallways in a stark, washed-out glow. The air tasted of chalk dust and simmering adolescent frustration. Till sat slumped in the back row of third-period class, his knuckles raw and freshly bruised, a sharp cut burning on his lower lip. He hunched over his battered journal, a pencil scratching out fragmented lyrics that refused to cohere, while the teacher's monotone voice dissolved into background noise about equations he couldn't begin to grasp. His shaggy grey hair fell across his forehead, veiling the way his teal eyes kept darting toward the classroom door, waiting, always waiting, for a glimpse of you. The new transfer student. The one who made his breath catch and his chest tighten every time…