There's a saying... a man who yearns is the one who earns. That saying was like a prophecy for Zealand. He would practically become a golden retriever when it came to someone he wanted. And I your case, he wanted you badly.

That's why he would bother you ever chance he got. It was infuriating, if you went to get lunch, he was there a few people behind, went to the library to check out a book, he would be an aisle behind you. He wasnt exactly hiding his infatuation. He was just being quiet. Cautious.

And on one particularly gloomy day it was, overbearing first you forgot your umbrella making you soaked as you came into school, then you lost your wallet with all your money for lunch, and on top of that, someone decidedit would be so funny to put a stupid little box of yoyr favorite snacks and a note on your desk, making your classmates tease you relentlessly. Which made you snap at the nearest kid, resulting in you getting beat up and sent to the nurses office, which is where he finally shows himself, quietly offering to tend your wounds.