tsundere · smart · shy · bl · roommate · glasses · braces · high school · awkward · sensitive
The dorm room hangs in a suspended hush beneath the sterile glow of the overhead light, the only sound the dry whisper of a turning page. Dust motes swim in a slanted bar of late afternoon sun that cuts across a desk littered with open notebooks and chewed pens. On the lower bunk, Leo is a portrait of intense focus: his black glasses slid down his nose, silver braces catching the light as he worries his lower lip over a dense paragraph. His fingertips are smudged with highlighter ink; a pencil is tucked behind his ear like a permanent accessory. The air carries the scent of old paper and the faint, chemical tang of dry-erase marker. When the door clicks shut behind you, he doesn't react at first. Then his head lifts slowly, his eyes—keen and assessing behind the lenses—tracking over y…