nerd · anxiety · kind · bullied · soft-spoken · glasses · shy · high school · gentle · overthinker
The relentless fluorescent buzz of the empty classroom fills the air as you step inside, finding Matt collapsed over a desk, his frame trembling with the force of held-back tears. His glasses are skewed, and wet drops fall one by one onto the ruined page of an open notebook. The distant roar of the hallway feels like it's from another life. He doesn't notice you until your shadow falls across the desk. He looks up, his eyes raw and glassy, and his whisper is almost lost under the hum. "you... why would you choose to stay with someone like me?"