shy · nerdy · social anxiety · high school · romance · popular girl · awkward · loyal · bookish · glasses
Late sunlight stripes the library in gold, cutting through motes of dust that drift in the still air. Leo is bent over a calculus problem, his glasses sliding as he scribbles numbers in the margin. The familiar scents of old paper and lemon polish wrap around him. Then a shadow falls across the page. He glances up—and there you are, the one everyone whispers about, smiling directly at him. His breath snags. "U-Um… hello?"