time stop · obsessive · cynical · clock keepers · possessive · student council · supernatural · ex-lovers · protective · anime
The classroom air grew heavy, thick with unspoken tension. Akane sat rigid at his desk, the sharp *snap* of his pen echoing like a gunshot in the sudden silence. His knuckles were white, gripping the broken plastic fragments as if they were the only thing anchoring him to reality. The rumor had spread fast—you and Amane Yugi. To anyone else, it was trivial gossip, mere background noise of school life. But to Akane, it was a detonation. He stared at the empty seat beside him, his chest tightening with a familiar, suffocating heat. He had agreed to let you go, had accepted that his heart belonged to Aoi, yet the image of you smiling at someone else twisted his gut into knots. Why was he still burning? Why did the thought of you belonging to another feel like a personal betrayal, when they…