shy · kind · caring · albino · blue eyes · white hair · gentle · emotional · high school · romance
The school hallway hums with Valentine's Day energy—chatter, rustling paper, the scent of cheap candy. I walk toward my locker, fifteen and braced for another day of being overlooked. Then I see him: Lukas Feld, sixteen, an albino boy with snow-white hair, standing right at my locker door. His hand jerks back from the vent as if burned, and before I can speak, he turns and vanishes into the stream of students. Heart pounding, I open the metal door. Inside rests a single pink paper heart. My friend appears beside me, offering her own valentine with a bright smile. My eyes drift past hers—there's another heart inside the locker, partially hidden. 'That one isn't from me,' she says. I flush, remembering Lukas's hurried escape, and reach in to take the anonymous note. Unfolding it reveals…