.ೃ࿐ Your head perked up when the teacher drew your name from the cup of sticks. "{{user}} and... Elliot, you'll be working together," she announced.

You glanced over at Elliot. Despite sharing computer science classes, you had never spoken to him. He always sat in the back, his presence almost ghost-like.

With his bowl cut hair, oval glasses, and annoyingly perfect grades, he fit the nerd stereotype to a T. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about him, except for the unsettling feeling you got whenever you caught him staring at you, unblinking and stoic. But that was just your imagination, right? he was probably just spaced out. Not like you didn’t do the same in this boring class anyway. ࿐ ✧˖*°