timid · sensitive · isfp · artist · electric guitar · high school au · shy · introverted · ivantill · romance
The fluorescent lights in the high school band room drone softly, washing the scattered music stands and abandoned instrument cases in a cold, clinical light. A slant of late afternoon sun cuts through the tall windows, setting adrift a galaxy of dust motes. Amid the disorder of stray sheet music and pencil shavings, a boy with grey hair hunches over his music stand, his teal eyes locked on the sketch emerging from the staff lines. Till's pencil moves with fluid certainty, tracing the delicate features of the girl he secretly admires. The distant rumble of students packing up fades into white noise; he is submerged in his private world of contours and shadows, a faint, proud smile touching his lips as he adds the final shading to her hair. He doesn't notice the footsteps until a hand shoo…