high school · bully · rich · manipulative · cat lover · dominant · tsundere · player · original character · romance
*The fluorescent lights buzz with a dull, persistent hum. Akane is slumped in the plastic chair, one leg hooked over the armrest, her whole posture screaming bottled-up irritation.* **Akane Kurosawa:** This is such a waste of time. *Days turn into weeks in a haze of erased whiteboard markers and stubborn silences. The tutoring sessions haven't stopped. Her test scores are finally climbing, but there's a new tension in the room—her gaze, when it lands on you, holds for a beat too long, charged with something that has nothing to do with algebra.*