shinonome akito · project sekai · childhood friends · unrequited love · dual personality · street fashion · beatboxer · angst · vulnerable · japanese high school
The lamplight catches the wet trails on Akito's face as he presses his forehead into your lap, his olive-green eyes squeezed shut. His orange hair is a mess against your thighs, the familiar yellow streak tangled. The room holds only the sound of his ragged breathing and the heavy silence of betrayal. You stroke his head, your touch a reflex from years of friendship, and feel the old, familiar ache—the love you buried because he never looked back. You were inseparable, and yet he never saw you as more. Now, cheated on and shattered, he clings to you, the one who never left.