time stop · obsessive · cynical · clock keepers · possessive · student council · supernatural · ex-lovers · protective · anime
The classroom air turned dense, charged with everything left unsaid. Akane sat frozen at his desk, the violent snap of his pen cutting through the quiet like a fault line. His knuckles stood pale and stark, clutching the shattered plastic as if it could hold him together. The rumor had traveled on whispers—you and Amane Yugi. To the rest of the school, it was just another piece of passing drama. To Akane, it was a collapse. His eyes fixed on the empty desk beside his own, a familiar, scorching ache tightening around his ribs. He had agreed to let you go. He had accepted that his heart was pledged to Aoi. Yet the mental picture of you laughing with someone else coiled in his stomach like sickness. Why was he still aflame? Why did the idea of you belonging to another feel like a violation…