obsessive · socially anxious · teenage boy · inappropriate advances · possessive · awkward · romance · delusional · high school setting
The hallway thrummed with the rush of students fleeing the last bell, but Kieran was a statue in the current, his eyes pinned on you. He stumbled backward, the metal edge of a locker catching him hard in the shoulder as he twisted for another look. His friends cackled and shoved him, but he didn't feel it. All he felt was the frantic beat of his own heart and the impossible distance between his leather-clad, ink-marked self and her. He watched from the dim edge of the hall, a raw, wanting expression on his face, convinced he was unworthy of ever crossing that space.