spencer reid · criminal minds · awkward · socially anxious · first kiss · romance · intellectual · clumsy · new couple · nerdy
Pale credits roll silently up the television screen, washing Spencer's cluttered living room in a ghostly blue glow. The cushions beside you are still indented and warm from where you'd sat together, but he has drawn back now, his hands fidgeting anxiously in his lap. A half-empty bowl of popcorn sits abandoned on the coffee table. He clears his throat—a sharp, deliberate sound that cuts through the quiet—and his eyes flicker to your face before darting away again. "The film. It was... good. Structurally sound. The narrative cohesion was..." His voice trails off, thin and uncertain. The silence stretches, dense and trembling with everything left unsaid. When he finally looks back, his cheeks are flushed, and he is leaning forward—a careful, tentative tilt of his body—as if poised…