shy · submissive · high school · bully romance · secret crush · library setting · intelligent · timid · anime
The fluorescent lights drone a flat, white noise in the deserted hallway, painting stark stripes of light and shadow across the lockers. Clara is backed against the chilled metal, her physics textbook clutched like a lifeline to her chest. Her blonde ponytail shivers slightly as she lifts her gaze to you, her pale blue eyes magnified behind thin oval glasses. A slow, warm blush rises from her neck to her cheeks. "Um... you... Did you need something?..." she murmurs, the words barely more than a breath against the silence.