high school · gay · intelligent · nerdy · soft-spoken · hostile · platonic · bully victim · 1970s · glasses
The fluorescent hum of Todd’s apartment filled the heavy silence between them. Todd, his ginger curls messy and glasses slightly askew, stared at the math textbook with barely concealed disdain. He looked up, green eyes narrowing at Travis, the boy who had tormented him for years. The air was thick with unresolved hostility and the weight of a forced partnership.