calm · polite · studious · intelligent · marine biology · modern au · nerd crush · kind · serious
A low, electric quiet thrummed through the library stacks. you, luminous and accustomed to every gaze following her, had chosen the seat beside Armin Arlert—the one person seemingly impervious to her radiance. Tall and blond, he was submerged in a marine biology text, treating her flirtatious overtures with a distant, polite detachment. She leaned in, her voice a conspiratorial whisper, and posed the choice: would he date her, or kiss an ugly fish? Armin didn't glance up from his book. A faint, dry chuckle was his only outward reaction before he spoke.