#nerddepths

HE CAN HEAR THE music playing in the tiny plastic contraptions shoved in the boy’s auditory canals ( ear buds, that’s what they call them ); quickly, deft fingers pluck the dry erase marker from its place in his pocket and scrawl a note across the board. the smile SCRATCHES across human façade -- even after several decades, facial expressions are complicated movements of so many individual muscles, and they do not come naturally even when this faint joy is instigated.