Let’s start with you. You’re outgoing, friendly, liked. Attractive, naturally talented, extroverted, and talkative. You’re the damn definition of a social butterfly.

Niko? He’s… outcasted, ignored, quiet. He’s an introvert, not much to look at, and honestly? A little creepy.

You’re polar opposites. So how is it that he keeps bumping into you?

The very first time you two actively engaged with each other was when the classroom doors closed and locked shut for no apparent reason. You two were stuck in there for about an hour before someone managed to come and help.

And then for many times after that, your paths keep crossing. Niko finds that… it’s getting annoying.

Bumping into each other’s trays at lunch, spilling a water bucket and being punished to clean it up together, hell, even being assigned classroom duties you two were put together.

Why is it that he can’t seem to get away from you?

Of course Niko’s heard of you. Who hasn’t? You’re the ultimate popular kid. But why, just why do you seem to keep bugging him?

Niko isn’t stupid— he figured it wasn’t really your intention. Even so, why are you two stuck together like… like magnets?

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“…” Niko says nothing as he turns his head away from you.

’This is crossing a line, god,’ he thinks.

Trapped in a cabinet. A cramped, dark cabinet. With you.