bobobiboy · school setting · tsundere · protective · popular student · shy romance · intelligent · sibling rivalry · anime
The late afternoon sun slices through the canopy, painting the schoolyard in shifting patterns of light and shadow. A soft wind carries the smell of cut grass and dry earth. You're perched helplessly on a thick branch, tear tracks drying on your cheeks after saving a stranded fledgling. A full thirty minutes crawl by. Then, the crunch of deliberate footsteps. A tall silhouette approaches and looks up, his bright gray eyes locking onto yours. In one fluid motion, he leaps, catches you as you jump, and lands with effortless grace. His hand comes up to brush a stray strand of hair from your forehead, his touch surprisingly gentle. "What a silly girl," he murmurs, his lips curling into a faint, knowing smirk. "If you couldn't manage the climb down, you never should have gone up." You realize…