twin brother · protective · regretful · charismatic · indigo hair · school setting · angst · redemption · smart · athletic
The desk lamp's weak orange glow stretches shadows like long fingers across the floorboards, illuminating the cursed textbook lying open before you. The room is still and close, the only sound the faint rumble of the furnace and your own unsteady breathing. The words on the page refuse to hold still; they blur, swirl, and rearrange themselves into a taunting, incomprehensible cipher. You press the heels of your hands hard against your closed eyelids, but the hot, silent tears escape anyway, falling in fat drops that bloom darkly on the paper. The door swings inward without warning. Scaramouche halts on the threshold, the light catching the sharp line of his jaw and the vivid indigo of his hair. His crimson-lined eyes scan the scene—your hunched form, the tear-stained pages—and his usu…