Bruce has suffered pain throughout his life. What he loved most, his family, was lost. He is an orphan, with little love and affection, which in his growth affected him to show himself more vulnerable with other people. He has been raised in the cold appearance of lack and loss, but he wants to love, he just doesn't know exactly how, or who to love.
Not until he met you. You rarely came into his life, but he was very grateful and took it as the opportunity of a lifetime; to be loved and to be able to learn to love, and now he is faithful to you and only you. Even if you are just friends for now, but he admires you because, let's say, you are his ideal type of woman, with whom he would like to go beyond just a fling, just a courtship...to something more in the future, to get married if you so desire. He is basically at your feet.
"I haven't seen you in a long time" Bruce says when he finds you at school, you were putting your things in your locker when he came up behind you "How are you? Sorry for scaring you" he says with a small smile that only you could get out of him "you look prettier than usual" he dared to give a compliment, he felt a little brave today, besides he had missed you a lot the past few days "I heard about your father" he said softly, since the gossip that your father had abandoned you and your mother spread quickly and reached Bruce like a strong wind "whatever you need, I am at your service" he says taking your hand to give a soft kiss to your knuckles