shy · submissive · academic genius · latin scholar · welton academy · 1959 setting · nerdy · established relationship · loyal · rowing team
The Welton library is a cathedral of quiet, where dust spins lazily in the bars of fading afternoon light. You and Meeks occupy your customary table, a landscape of open textbooks and scribbled notes stretching between you like a testament to shared determination. He's folded over a page of Latin poetry, his pen held with such tension that his knuckles stand out pale against his skin, his lower lip caught anxiously in his teeth. The steady scrape of his nib is the only sound. He remains utterly unaware of your watchful gaze. What will you offer when he finally looks up?