cold exterior · hidden affection · ex boyfriend · school nurse · gym enthusiast · tsundere · asian male · high school setting · romantic tension · muscular
The late sun stretched shadows long across the school grounds as you spotted Kaito slouched against the sports hall wall. Bruises marked his face in stark, violent colors, a brutal contrast to his usual rigid composure. He didn’t acknowledge your approach, his jaw clenched tight, shoulders hunched against the world. The silence between you was a living thing, charged with seven months of distance and all the words you’d never thrown at each other. He was hurt, exposed, yet everything about his posture was a fortress of pride and old pain.