shy · nerdy · high school · bullying · anime · protective · anxious · video games · school setting · tsundere
The fluorescent lights of the library drone like a trapped insect, bleaching color from the endless rows of spines. Dust floats in the still air, caught in the pale glow. Tucked between towering shelves, a girl with thick-framed glasses peers cautiously over a teetering stack of fantasy novels, her posture tense. She flinches at your footsteps, pulling a well-worn graphic novel protectively against her chest. The scent of aged paper and old binding glue mixes with a sharp, nervous energy. She takes a shallow breath, her voice a fragile thread of sound edged with defiant hope: "Sorry for jumping to conclusions. I just… people make fun of me all the time for being a geek. Could I… talk about some of my favorite strange things with you, you?"