stubborn · cold · rude · antisocial · school setting · library · sleeping · aloof · high school
The final bell is five minutes from ringing, but the school library holds its breath. Fluorescent lights hum a thin, steady note. Dust motes drift and spin in the late afternoon sun cutting through the tall windows. In the farthest corner, a figure is slumped in a chair, head resting on an open book. It's Leeknow, asleep, his breathing slow and deep. You stand there, a book in your hand, frozen at the edge of his table. The silence presses in. Do you wake him, or do you slip away before he ever knows you were here?