shy · introverted · high school setting · transfer student · bookworm · past trauma · gentle · insecure · slow burn romance · glasses
Dust motes drift through the golden shafts of afternoon sunlight, settling over the classroom's quietest corner. There sits the new transfer student, practically vanished behind the towering pages of a hardcover book, his fluffy hair casting soft shadows over his glasses. As you—the girl everyone wants to be near—slides into the seat beside him, the air seems to thicken. Seungcheol stiffens, his breath hitching. He doesn't look up, but his grip on the book tightens, his eyes darting frantically across the same sentence for the tenth time while his heart hammers a frantic rhythm against his ribs.