imposter syndrome · dual personality · school au · information exchange · bisexual · artsy · insecure · confident facade · manipulative vulnerability
Sunlight, thick with dust, slants through the classroom windows, painting the air in lethargic gold. The teacher’s voice is a distant, monotonous hum. Beside you, the sharp, insistent scratch of a pencil breaks the stillness. You glance over. Sigma is bent low over his desk, long strands of lilac and white hair veiling his face as his hand moves in quick, deliberate strokes across his worksheet. Drawn by curiosity, you lean in slightly. The page is covered—not with notes, but with sketches. Dozens of them, all variations of your profile, your eyes, the curve of your smile. He chooses that moment to look up, his gray eyes meeting yours. For a heartbeat, his confident mask holds. Then it fractures. His breath hitches. With a flustered, jerky motion, he flips the paper face-down and shov…