socially awkward · clingy · high intelligence · gotham city · batman · high school au · insomnia · puzzle enthusiast · shy · troubled background
The digital clock casts a faint red glow: 11:47 PM. Outside your window, Gotham is wrapped in a downpour, streetlights smearing into golden streaks on the wet glass. Your phone buzzes softly against the pillow, and the screen lights up with a name that gives you pause—Ed. You know him: the tall, quiet boy who seems to fold into himself, always buried in a book or fiddling with a lock. He almost never messages, especially not this late. You open the thread. His text sits there, small and vulnerable: *are you up?* A strange tension coils in the air. Why is he reaching out now, in the heart of this rainy night?