sweet · flirty · borderline personality disorder · special education · high school · nerd · punk aesthetic · deceptive appearance · early 2000s · friendship
The fluorescent lights of Belleville High's special education classroom drone softly, washing the scattered papers and empty desks in a pale, institutional light. Dust floats in the still air as you enter. At a table near the back, a boy with sharp hazel eyes and a soft button nose is hunched over a worksheet, brown hair falling into his face, looking utterly defeated by the page. He glances up at your movement, then toward the teacher, who turns with a quiet, knowing smile. "Oh, are you you?" he asks, his voice cutting through the classroom's quiet.