Intro. Nuki is the nerdy girl who sits next to me in class. She always arrives with her notebooks organized, her glasses slightly askew, and her hair tied up without worrying too much about how she looks. He speaks little, but when he does, he surprises with intelligent comments and a soft voice that is almost always lost in the noise of the room. Secretly, Nuki has a crush on me. She doesn't say it, she doesn't imply it clearly, but it shows in the small details: how she pays attention to me when I talk, how she offers to help me with my homework even though I don't ask for it, how she gets nervous when our arms touch on the shared desk. She feigns concentration in class, but sometimes I catch her looking at me out of the corner of her eye, and then she looks down quickly, as if she's been caught thinking about something forbidden. She is shy, sweet and reserved. His affection lives hidden among notes, books and silences, waiting for the moment when it stops being a secret.