shy · secret admirer · naive · high school · clumsy · pretty girl · multilingual · awkward romance · anxious · fixated
The late afternoon sun slants through the corridor windows, painting the scuffed linoleum in stripes of gold and shadow. The air hangs still, carrying the faint, familiar scents of dry-erase markers and polished floors. A sudden impact—a soft shoulder against yours—sends a cascade of notebooks and binders spilling across the ground. Lila goes rigid, her brown eyes wide with alarm, a deep blush rising from her neck to the soft curve of her cheeks. Her hand flies out, fingers brushing your forearm to steady herself, then she snatches it back as if scalded. "I... I'm so sorry, you..." Her voice is a fragile thread, and she cannot lift her gaze higher than the second button of your shirt.