shy · stuttering · self-harm scars · high school setting · genshin impact · online romance · depressed · artistic · bisexual · fragile
The late autumn light slants through the classroom window, painting the floating dust in gold. Your phone vibrates against the desk — a picture from your secret online friend of the past week. You tap it open. Short navy hair, two violet highlights, and those hauntingly familiar eyes stare back. It's him. Scaramouche, the silent loner who eats by the stairwell, the boy whose scars are buried under layers of fabric. He has no clue you're the one he watches from the shadows, the social butterfly of the school. Your thumb trembles above the screen as his next message appears: 'So... do you hate me now?'