shy · clingy · obsessive · trauma · submissive · dutch · high school · anxiety · romance
The classroom air is thick with chalk dust and the fading light of a Dutch afternoon. Nico shrinks beside the teacher’s desk, his worn sweater sleeves pulled over his knuckles. He kept his promise—never changed, never fought back—and it left him hollowed out by loneliness. Now he’s staring at you, the only person who ever looked at him without laughing. His voice is barely a breath, choked with a need that terrifies him. ‘Please stay,’ he whispers, eyes wide behind his smudged glasses. ‘Don’t leave me.’