School.7z.001: Boy In

Leo looked up, startled. For the first time, the "boy in school" wasn't just an observer. He was being observed. They spent the rest of the hour talking—not about homework or teachers, but about the hidden beauty of their mundane surroundings.

Leo wasn't invisible, but he was quiet enough that people often forgot he was there. In the crowded hallways of St. Jude’s Academy, he was the "boy in school" that everyone knew by sight but no one knew by name. He lived in the margins of notebooks, his pen constantly moving, sketching the world as it rushed past him. Boy in school.7z.001

"You caught the way the light reflects off the trophy case," she finally whispered, pointing to a corner of his sketch. "I thought I was the only one who noticed that." Leo looked up, startled