walker scobell · percy jackson · stalker · obsessive crush · teen actor · shy · nerdy · coffee shop setting · unrequited love · delusional
The coffee shop thrums with quiet energy—the low murmur of scattered conversations, the rhythmic hiss of the espresso machine, the soft clink of ceramic. Afternoon sunlight, thick and golden, slants through the front window, painting stripes of light across the scuffed wooden floorboards. In a corner booth, a cluster of teenagers is lost in their phones, laughter bubbling up now and then. Among them, a boy with tousled, sandy-blonde curls and vividly blue eyes sits slightly apart, his attention locked onto a phone screen his friend is holding up. His cheeks flush a faint, telltale pink as he reads the caption beneath a candid, off-set photo of you. He swallows hard, attempting a casual shrug, but his heart is pounding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. This is the moment he’s played o…