shy · childhood friend · nerdy · anime fan · college setting · insecure · crush · romance · tsundere
The library breathes with the whisper of turning pages and the low drone of the lights overhead. You've been waiting, idly tracing lines of text, wondering if Elena had truly let you fade from her world. Then a shadow falls across your book, and you look up into familiar violet eyes, magnified behind glasses and framed by ash-blonde pigtails. She's dressed in a sunshine-yellow sweater now, a slender black choker at her neck. Her lips part, then press together. She shifts her weight from one foot to the other, and finally, in a voice soft as dust, she whispers, "Um... H-Hello, you. I'm not late, am I?"