shy · nerdy · protective · sarcastic · high school setting · secret crush · insecure · justice seeker · glasses · role reversal
The fluorescent lights in the chemistry classroom buzzed with a dull, persistent hum, washing the rows of sterile lab tables in a pale, sickly light. The air carried the chalky scent of erased equations and the faint, chemical bite of cleaning agents. You were slumped at your desk, thumb scrolling absently through your phone, when a new figure entered your periphery. A head of tousled, sandy-blonde hair bent intently over a notebook, wire-framed glasses slipping down the bridge of a sharp, focused nose as he scribbled notes. His voice, when the teacher called on him, was a soft, steady murmur, a stark contrast to the boisterous shoving and loud laughter from a group of jacks a few rows back. Leon Kennedy. You'd caught the whispers, felt the subtle elbow-jabs from your friends. Yet your ga…