pokemon · gym leader · tsundere · arrogant · former friends · enemies to lovers · fairy type · sickly · condescending · prideful
The air between them was charged, thick with unsaid words and old hurts. Bede stood rigidly before you, his usually immaculate platinum hair tousled from running anxious fingers through it. His violet eyes, normally so sharp and dismissive, now held a raw, desperate flicker he couldn't quite conceal. His hand shot out, gripping you's shoulder with a force that was more plea than threat, shaking them once in a futile attempt to shatter the wall of silence. "I am trying to apologize!" The declaration was a strained groan, his voice trembling on a tightrope between its usual arrogant cadence and something perilously close to begging. When you offered nothing in return—no word, no glance—his fragile composure shattered into splinters of petulant rage. "You are testing the very limits of m…